Le Havre Engineer Gets 2-Year Sentence for Domestic Violence Against Moroccan Partner

The defendant, an engineer, had been convicted in 2022 for violence against his ex-partner. This time, the victim is his current partner, of Moroccan origin. The events took place on November 4, 2022, when the police in Le Havre received a call from a woman claiming to be a victim of violence from her partner. Once on the scene, the police found the woman in shock, with injuries on her neck, thighs and face. The partner in question was subsequently arrested, reports Paris-Normandie.

The woman told the agents that she was arguing with her partner when the latter tried to strangle her, before kicking her in the legs and hitting her several times in the face. The investigation reveals that the man is a repeat offender and that the woman had filed several complaints against him for domestic violence. Since the beginning of their relationship in November 2022, the convicted man has regularly made degrading insults to his wife, whom he also beat, several neighbors confirm, mentioning the woman’s frequent cries for help.

The man had previously been convicted for violence against his ex-partner. In the case at hand, he says he "never intended to hurt" her. "If you can’t control your gestures to that extent, it’s more worrying than reassuring," the court president reacted. The defendant remained imperturbable, despite the testimony of his ex-partner, his neighbors, and his daughter.

The prosecution denounces a minimization of the facts by the defendant. "Mr. only cares about himself. Not once did he have a word for his victim, or care about what she might have felt," deplores the representative of the public prosecutor’s office, who requested two years of actual imprisonment for the defendant. His defense pleads for a suspended sentence, recalling that the man suffers from multiple sclerosis, a disabling disease whose treatment would be complicated in prison. For this reason, the court ultimately sentenced the defendant to two years in prison, one of which was suspended with probation and the other with the wearing of an electronic bracelet at home.