Melina Facchin and AFP 8:15 a.m., May 26, 2022
A pregnant woman managed to give a note to a pharmacist on Tuesday where "SOS" was written, allowing her to alert the police and arrest her husband, suspected of domestic violence.
On the spot, the police proceeded to the arrest of the companion who was taken into custody.
He will soon be brought before the court.
A pregnant woman, accompanied by her spouse, presented herself on Tuesday in a pharmacy near Strasbourg: she managed to give a note to the pharmacist where was written "SOS", allowing to alert the police and to arrest her husband, suspected of domestic violence.
The 36-year-old woman entered a pharmacy in Illkirch-Graffenstaden, in the suburbs of Strasbourg, on Tuesday around 5:00 p.m., police said on Wednesday.
She then presented a prescription by managing to slip a small piece of paper on which was just written "SOS".
"We made the woman go to the back of the shop by inventing a measurement. She burst into tears, she trembles, she is stressed. She tells us that she is pregnant and that her companion is violent, that 'He broke everything at home,' explains the manager of the pharmacy on Europe 1.
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The man was taken into custody
“The pharmacist then quickly became aware of the situation and did everything possible to provoke the intervention of the national police. Quickly on the spot, the police arrested the companion who was placed in police custody” , added the Departmental Directorate of Public Security in a press release.
"The victim told the police about the verbal abuse and death threats she suffered and for which she has never dared to file a complaint for the time being. She also mentioned the particularly complicated context of her current relationship with her spouse, all in a climate of separation and marriage of convenience”, continued this same source.
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The 30-year-old husband will soon be brought to justice, continued the DDSP, which praised "the professionalism and responsiveness of this pharmacist"