The court of Bourgoin-Jallieu (Isère) judged this Tuesday a 46-year-old man for acts of domestic violence.

He was also accused of having forced his partner and their two babies of 16 and 3 months to live with him in a wooden shed in the marshes, without electricity or running water, in Pont-de-Beauvoisin (Isère), details

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The defendant was sentenced to three years in prison, including 18 months suspended.

He was imprisoned after the trial.

The 12-month suspended prison sentence to which he had previously been sentenced was also revoked.

The father of the family has been stripped of his parental authority, will have to take care of himself and work and can no longer contact his wife and their children.

The gendarmes intervened in the couple's home on December 22 after reports from several social services.

They were to arrest the forties for domestic violence but had discovered an unsanitary dwelling.

Both babies had been placed.

The respondent's wife had described physical violence and insults.

Miscellaneous facts

Blois: What we know about the assault of a woman who had tried to file a complaint against her ex-companion

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Convictions for domestic violence doubled between 2017 and 2021 in France

  • Bourgoin Jallieu

  • Isere

  • Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

  • Conviction

  • Abuse

  • Domestic violence