A 30-year-old tried for hitting his partner at her home on the first weekend of confinement and then threatened with police was sentenced on Wednesday to three years in prison by the Bordeaux criminal court. He was immediately imprisoned. This case, judged in immediate appearance, did not however highlight in the debates a direct link with the context of confinement.
This Central African man notably hit his partner against the refrigerator on the night of March 21-22. Having a seizure, she fled the next day with her daughter before being prescribed three days of ITT. Alone in the apartment in Bègles, near Bordeaux, he then, in rage, set the apartment on fire, causing the suffocation of his companion's two cats and significant damage.
He explained that he was not in his "normal state"
In police custody, his mouth covered with a protective mask, he then heavily insulted the police, warning that they were "all going to be shot in the head" by referring to the "Kouachi brothers", Charlie's killers Weekly, before attacking an official. "When he brought him back to his cell, he boasted of having the coronavirus," said one of the three police officers who accused him of having thrown himself on the ground at the Bordeaux police station.
In the box, the thirty-something, who said he tried to kill himself in the White Spirit after the marital dispute, tried to justify himself: "I'm sorry, I was not in my normal state, I had taken 80 pills in 3-4 days. I find it hard to accept separation. I do not want to leave. I tell him we are waiting for the end of confinement.
"However, you had a solution outside confinement, you could go to your parents," retorted the president to the defendant already condemned 11 times. The defendant's apologies, described by the prosecutor as "swindler of speech", did not convince the court, which attached its judgment to a ban on contacting the victim and his daughter, in accordance with the requisitions of the Public minister.
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