The Besançon criminal court sentenced the parents, uncle and aunt of a shorn Bosnian Muslim girl on Friday evening because she was dating a young Christian Serb to one year of imprisonment, including four months suspended.
The court also issued a five-year ban on French territory against the parents of the 17-year-old girl.
This affair had aroused strong emotion in France and even abroad, recalling the fate of thousands of women shorn during the Liberation for having maintained a liaison with a German soldier under the Occupation.
At the hearing, the girl and the family of her boyfriend, present at the time of the facts on August 17, claimed that she had been taken to her room, molested by the four adults and shaved by her uncle.
The parents, the uncle and the aunt admitted for their part one or two slaps, at the most, and maintained that it was her father who shaved her to "punish her, so that she does not go out" afterwards. a four-day runaway with the young man, three years his senior.
"My parents punched and kicked me," said the victim during his interview with investigators, explaining that they were against their marriage and that they were dating "because of religion ".
"We cut his hair, it's like a fine"
But the members of his family disputed this version, the uncle believing that "when a young underage girl does a big mistake, one cuts her hair, it is like a fine".
"The fact of having the hair cropped, when it is imposed, it takes away our beauty, our femininity, it is besides the symbol that they wanted to pass", lambasted the lawyer of the victim, Me Céline Party.
The four defendants “denied having beaten Selma.
The father said he had
just mowed her
, the mother had
slapped her twice
, the aunt
a stroller on her shoulder
and the uncle, not to have touched her, ”noted prosecutor Etienne Manteaux.
But “how do you explain the severity of the forensic examination, broken ribs, multiple bruises, 14 days of ITT…?
", He wondered before requesting a year in prison against the four adults for these" extremely serious facts ".
Defense lawyers for their part refuted any "beating".
Parents will also have to pay € 6,000 to their victim.
The father and the mother are also prohibited from appearing on French territory for five years.
At the end of the hearing, after the audience left, the young woman burst into tears in the arms of her mother, then her father.
A confusing scene reported by the Republican East.
