“You are not a good father when you are an abusive partner.
In this case, there are not six children who lie but six children who are suffering.
They were afraid their mother would die.
These young people who grow up in a context of domestic violence have the same symptoms as the victims of post-traumatic stress ", hammered the deputy prosecutor Valentine Géraud, looking at the father, tried in immediate appearance, Wednesday, for violence habitual and death threats on his wife, by the criminal court of Meaux.
Despite his denials, this 48-year-old Meldois was sentenced - for violence - to 18 months in prison, including 9 months closed, which he will perform under an electronic bracelet.
He was released for the threats, which were not repeated.
At the end of the hearing, the defendant returned to prison for a few days, the time to put the device in place.
The prosecutor had requested three years in prison, including 18 months firm, with a committal warrant, also demanding that an anti-reconciliation bracelet be assigned to the defendant.
An "incomplete investigation" for the defense lawyer
The couple's six children, aged 4 to 17, had testified in the proceedings to the climate of violence in which they have always lived. Describing a mother who could not dress as she wanted or who had to justify her schedule. “I want to end this union. I stand by everything I have said. He is in total denial, ”said the mother at the helm, while specifying that her husband had never hit her children.
“My client is not exaggerating anything and has not added anything.
It's just that she can't take any more insults and humiliations, ”pleaded her lawyer, Me Geraldine Sat-Duparay.
For his part, Me Ludovic Beaufils, the defense lawyer, who pleaded the acquittal, lambasted the investigation, incomplete in his eyes, believing that no proof of guilt was reported: "I am not in the process. conspiracy theory.
I'm just saying that there was a work of undermining and that the children are telling false things ”.