A man tried at the Caen court: “She’s my wife, I do what I want!”
By Writing Caen
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Angèle* and Boris* are drinking. They formed a couple that worked like that for three years. He likes to repeat at the bar of the criminal court, where he compared Thursday, November 24: “She has been drinking, for years, since the death of her father, she drinks, she drinks, she drinks! “However, it is not her who finds herself implicated for violence and driving under the influence of alcohol, it is him. The facts of which he is accused date from July 1, 2022.
Three years together, two complaints withdrawn
During the three years during which they shared their life, Angèle filed two complaints against Boris, for domestic violence. But she took them off every time. This day last July, an argument breaks out in the car while Boris, drunk, is at the wheel. He violently pulls Angèle from the vehicle to get her out, slapping her and pulling her by the hair. When a passer-by tries to intervene, Boris shouts at him: “She’s my wife! I do what I want ! »
Arrested a little later, he has more than one gram of alcohol per liter of blood. At the helm, he recognizes the facts, but in his own way.
I told him to release. And then there we hit each other, and then there you go…
These proposals displease the prosecutor. “And then there you go, he said… as if it were ordinary, banal, normal! “. She summarizes: alcoholic driving and violence. “He didn’t keep a low profile. He blithely insulted his companion in front of the gendarmes. She is asking for a 5-month prison sentence with a probationary suspension of 24 months.
Suspended prison sentence
“He is presented as a violent man, but there is no mention of violence in his record. There are only traffic offenses, ”pleads the defense lawyer. She describes a couple who have a habit of drinking together, and a woman prone to fits of hysteria.
Boris is sentenced to 5 months in prison with a simple suspended sentence and will have to follow a stage of accountability for the prevention and fight against violence within the couple, to be carried out within 6 months. If he doesn’t, the stay could be revoked.
*Assumed first names.
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