Jealousy is a nasty fault that can lead to violence, as this Quimperoise, victim of her partner, found to her cost.
The latter, aged 42, who appeared Monday February 12 before the city's criminal court, prosecuted for violence with and without weapons and death threats, was sentenced to eight months in prison.
But the irony in this story is that the fussy companion himself led a double life, with the tacit agreement of the two women, who were obliged to live with it.
A different home every day and five children born from the two unions.
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On September 9, 2024, a woman presented herself at the Quimper police station to denounce the violence, insults and death threats that she said she had received from her partner.
She explains that she has been in a relationship with him since 2011 and that two children were born from this union.
But when she announced a few weeks ago to her partner, originally from Mayotte, that she wanted to end their relationship, she did not like it at all.
Since then, they lived together in the house but the situation was tense.
“He intercepted my mail and threatened to kill me:
I can kill you and wreck your car.
No one will know it’s me
,” the latter reported to the police.
She adds that the man brutalized her the same morning by pushing her wildly, and also mentions another act of violence with a knife which allegedly took place a few weeks earlier.
“A knife is ideal for a calm discussion”
During the hearing, the forty-year-old adopted a casual attitude, obviously thinking he was within his rights.
“As she was bothering me, I heard a tirade on TV and I repeated it,” the defendant justified himself, when questioned about the death threats.
“If you had heard David Guetta on TV, would you have sung Guetta to him?
What show was it?
Definitely a reality show.
Mind you, it would be at their level,” quipped the president of the court, a bit condescending.
To explain the violence and insults, the forty-year-old explained that he suspected his partner of having a relationship with another man.
“I wanted to protect my children so that they wouldn't be alone if she went to see another guy.
» A sentence which made the president react.
“In parallel with your relationship with the victim, you have also lived since 2014 with another woman with whom you had three children.
And you pretend to be jealous?
You have to be serious, sir.
It's
Don't do what I do
.
We can't say that you have an impeccable life.
»
Without complexes, the defendant admitted that he divided the week between his two households, one day, one and the next day, the other.
The president then returned to the fact of violence with a knife.
The defendant's response was surprising.
“I just wanted to chat and I picked up a knife I was playing with, passing it from one hand to the other.
And that's when she admitted to me that she was seeing another man.
» “It is true that, to have a calm discussion, it is ideal to have a knife in your hand,” retorted the president.
The prosecutor, Jean-Baptiste Doubli, described the defendant as a “domestic tyrant”, who lived off the victim and who had even financed a trip and that of his other partner with her own money.
He requested a mixed sentence.
“Monsieur understood that life as a couple for two, three or four people was complicated.
My client only wants to see his children again,” argued Mr. Buors, the defense lawyer.
Wise decision: the jealous man in spite of himself received a suspended sentence this time.