Toulouse: an undocumented migrant who became a domestic tyrant sentenced to one year in prison
A mother had become infatuated with a young undocumented person. He moved in with her. Quickly, Prince Charming turned into a domestic tyrant until he beat her up and humiliated her in front of her children. Judged on June 27, he received a year in prison and will have to leave French territory once his sentence has been served.
She is very small, finds it difficult to move. Every time the clerk of the correctional court asks the courtroom to stand up, it’s an ordeal for her. She faces this June 27th the one who makes her live a hell on a daily basis. She fell in love with this young man 23 years her junior in a supermarket where she was cleaning. Blinded by love, she hadn’t understood his true intentions. Under an obligation to leave French territory, he can obtain papers thanks to this relationship. Except that the cooing of the first weeks quickly gave way to almost daily violence. Last March, she had the misfortune to serve him a coffee that was too cold for his taste. He unleashes himself on her. Kicks and punches all over the body. The victim’s eldest daughter intervenes. She gets punched in the face.
The coffee is too cold, he beats her up
The young woman then takes matters into her own hands. In order to protect her mother and her little sister who regularly attends the scenes of violence, she files a complaint. The young man is placed under judicial control. He is strictly forbidden to return to the home of his two victims. However, the next day he moves back into the apartment. Soon he becomes violent again. The mother, terrified by threats from the defendant’s country of origin, tries to hide her abuse from the police. Once again, it is her eldest daughter who gives the alert. Prosecutor Alix Cabot-Chaumeton also retained in the preamble of her requisitions the “maturity and exceptional courage” of the young woman. The defendant was sentenced to one year in prison with continued detention. His lawyer Me Macario had highlighted his particularly difficult childhood and his psychiatric problems in an attempt to lighten the sentence.