Moroccan Man Sentenced to Prison for Years of Domestic Abuse in France

On December 12, Nadia was taken to the emergency department of the Centre Hospitalier Sud Francilien (CHSF) in Corbeil-Essonnes by her father-in-law. Without his help, she would have died in anonymity, after being a victim, in silence, of domestic violence for several years. Once again, her husband Ayoub A. beat her, reports Actu.

The nurse who welcomed Nadia, noting that it was a case of domestic violence, immediately alerted the Évry police, who sent a team to the hospital and another to the couple’s home, which lives with Ayoub’s parents. A neighbor told the investigators that Nadia’s father-in-law had told him that his son was violently beating his wife and that he feared she would leave with the children.

Questioned during the January 26 hearing before the tenth correctional chamber of the Évry-Courcouronnes (Essonne) court, Nadia explained that she was not free to move, could not wear the clothes of her choice and did not even have the right to consult job offers or do administrative research on the Internet. "You’ll see, I’ll send you back to the country," Ayoub threatened her.

The dispute of December 12 was the one too many. For a story of groceries, Ayoub assaults Nadia in the tibia and thorax, forcing the woman to remain totally incapacitated for nine days. The young man was found guilty of the facts and sentenced to a sentence of 12 months in prison, including 10 with probationary suspension for a period of 2 years. The firm sentence will be in the form of home detention under electronic surveillance.