He sexually assaults a woman who retaliates, his sidekick gets involved: two clubbers sentenced in Monaco
A marketing manager had “wandering hands” on the evening of May 30 in a night establishment in Monaco. Or, putting a hand on your ass without consent is de facto sexual assault.
Following the victim’s complaint, the defendant was therefore summoned to appear at the last hearing for this offense in order to be tried by the criminal court. But he did not appear on the stand. Just like her boyfriend, estimated to be of the same age, suspected of violence during the same evening. So, what was dictated by this indecent, shocking gesture?
Four days of ITT for the victim
No need to get lost in guesswork when faced with the absence of the defendant. Only the reading of the minutes by President Florestan Bellinzona would provide applicable details.
“Firstlya related the magistrate, this character with an incongruous attitude had fiddled with the victim’s shoulder. An energetic explanation put an end to a possible repetition of the facts. But later, the individual put one hand in the bag and the other on the buttocks of a client of the nightclub…” This behavior provoked a strong reaction from the young woman and the threatening approach of the second defendant to defend her boyfriend.
“At this momentcontinued the president, the security services intervene and they take the two clubbers out of the disco. Placed in police custody, the aggressor no longer remembered having had such intimate contact and his violent boyfriend believed that he had only defended himself. As for the victim, he was prescribed four days of ITT for psychological trauma. If these two characters are unknown to the Monegasque justice until then, the violent man has already been sentenced outside the Principality for injuries and driving without a license.
“The violence is obvious”
For the prosecution, the reasons for defense put forward by the defendants are not valid. “The violence is obviousdecried the substitute, Emmanuelle Carniello, referring to their conduct. The thesis of the response does not hold more and several times they made the same blow. These two characters were really unpleasant and they are not even here today to give their versions of the facts.
It was required three months with a suspended sentence for the author of a main alley much further than it should have, and a fine for the second.
After deliberating, the court pronounced a common sentence of one month suspended imprisonment and the threatening friend will have to pay 140 euros to the civil party.