Moroccan Man Jailed for Violent Threats Against Ex-Partner in Hauts-de-Seine

"I’m going to leave you in a pool of blood, kick you in the head, beat you up, you’re going to go into a coma." This brief excerpt from the 5 minute and 28 second call recording, which is almost exclusively composed of these violent statements, made in January 2021 by the defendant, a Moroccan residing in Courbevoie, towards the mother of his two children, testifies to the toxic climate she has endured, reports Actu.fr.

At the bar without a lawyer on June 9, the defendant defended himself: "She knows me by heart and she annoys me. We don’t have her conversations. She manipulated me, I would never have carried it out." "For him, these are threats but for me, I have no certainty that he won’t act on it. The only way I have to be at peace is to go through you. I took advantage of the call to record it, because I needed proof," recounts his ex-partner.

In addition to this recording, there were also messages of insults and threats. She had filed four hand-written complaints in May 2013. She explained that the defendant had beaten her several times and had wanted to take their 10-year-old daughter to Morocco. "If I didn’t have him, I had nothing in my life. I always hoped he would understand, but it never happened, and it got worse," testifies the mother.

Unemployed, homeless, in debt, this agoraphobic lives with his parents. He has 20 entries on his criminal record, including assault, repeated drunk driving, without a license, theft, forgery, drug trafficking and active corruption. The former catering employee complains that the mother "prevents him from seeing his children". The public prosecutor’s office requested one and a half years in prison, including six months suspended and a course to combat domestic violence.

The verdict is in: the thirty-year-old was sentenced to one and a half years in prison, including six months that can be arranged in semi-liberty and one year with a two-year probationary suspension. He is required to treat his alcoholism, find a job or training, pay 2,000 euros to his ex-partner for her moral damage and legal costs. He is also prohibited from contacting the victim except in front of the police station to see his children.