“I have never been violent.
I don't understand.
» Until the end, he tried to exonerate himself from his responsibility.
The overwhelming evidence, however, vindicated the position of this resident of Corbeil-Essonnes.
This Tuesday, February 6, a 29-year-old man received 3 years in prison, coupled with 18 months of probation, for having hit and then stabbed his partner twice, on New Year's Eve 2023. The prosecutor had required 5 years of imprisonment.
Taking refuge with a neighbor
The facts date back to December 31.
At the start of the evening, the police intervened in the hall of a building on rue de la Bruyère, in the Tarterêts district.
A 27-year-old woman has just been the victim of violence.
Taking refuge with a neighbor, she was allegedly hit in the face then stabbed twice in the shoulder blade.
The victim was hospitalized in the evening.
She will survive her serious injuries.
The author is quickly identified and arrested: it is her husband, arrested on his landing with his baby in his arms.
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In court, the almost thirty-year-old, with long hair and a full beard, repeats: “I am not violent.
But I'm very jealous.
» This, he said, is what pushed him to “get angry” on December 31.
The man allegedly discovered that his wife was chatting with another man on social media.
The defendant, an Algerian national, admits - half-heartedly - to the punches.
As for the stabbings... Her version turns out to be particularly crazy: “I was eating, I had the knife in my hand, I pushed her in the back so it wouldn't get worse.
I never planted it.
»
“I just had Instagram and TikTok…”
In front of him, the victim fumes.
The photos taken that evening by the police are clear: the young woman experienced “relentless violence”, according to the prosecutor.
Two cuts on the back, a broken tooth, fractured nose bones... This Tuesday, purplish traces still line the victim's eyes despite her makeup.
“I only had Instagram and TikTok, he didn’t like it,” she said on the stand.
I talked to his friend, and we had an argument.
He hit me and stabbed me on the sofa.
»
The couple have been married for seven years.
The audience allows us to glimpse the author's desire for absolute control over his partner: restricted access to his phone, prohibition of going out without him, control of his clothing... Even to the point of suffering violence.
“She fled someone who wanted her life,” asserts the lawyer for the civil party, Me Dubau.
“I love him, it’s sincere,” the young man tries for his part.
The witnesses of December 31, however, noted his “total indifference” to the fate of his companion, seriously injured and taken in by next-door neighbors.
His lawyer asks him about his “problem of jealousy and violence”.
Answer: “I would like to talk to someone when I get out (
of prison, Editor’s note
).
» The victim has made her decision: “I want us to distance ourselves.
Let everyone live their lives.
» The couple's two children were the subject of a placement measure.