A Millavois convicted of hitting his disabled father: “A detestable case against a backdrop of social misery”

Les policiers millavois sont intervenus à de nombreuses reprises pour des rixes au sein du couple. Archives ML

A thirty-year-old from Millau was sentenced to nine months in prison for various acts of violence, particularly against his father and his ex-partner, always under the influence of alcohol.

Born in 1987, the defendant who is appearing before the Rodez court on Wednesday 11 September, his hands in the pockets of his down jacket, seems much older… His face bears the scars of multiple addictions, to alcohol or to Subutex, a heroin substitution treatment, which he injects daily.

The fruit of several years of wandering where he admits without batting an eyelid before the magistrates to having “worked illegally” in construction or “with fairground workers on the rides”. But he is not appearing before the Aveyron court for these small illegal jobs but for much more serious acts. He must answer for violence. Towards his own father with whom he lived but also his ex-partner.

“A detestable case against a backdrop of social misery”

The latter's lawyer quickly summed up the case with these words: “It's a detestable case against a backdrop of social misery”.Indeed, the man is addicted to alcohol, his father too and his ex-partner too. We are talking about liters of wine, up to five a day for some, beers… In short, the trio was well known to the police services of the Aveyron sub-prefecture.

In 2023, they had accumulated dozens of interventions in the street or at the home of the defendant's father. Until the partner filed a complaint and reported recurring blows. Several episodes are highlighted: a fracture of the humerus following a jostle on the banks of the Tarn, a slap on the terrace of a café… “Why did you hit her like that ?”, tries the president of the hearing, Blandine Arrial. “I don't know”, the thirty-year-old replies.

“Witnesses ? Let them mind their own business”

The judge will also focus on reported acts of violence against his own father. Especially since the defendant has already been convicted of acts of violence against an ascendant in 2009… Disabled and in a wheelchair, his father, born in 1954, is said to have suffered numerous blows to his body and face. Home nurses, neighbors, and even the defendant's own sister have been moved by this on several occasions.

“Since he lived with his father, it was nonsense. They were both drinking, the accommodation was unsanitary, there was excrement on the ground even though there were no animals, they insulted each other, the son hit the father and extorted money from him even though he never stopped defending him… ", say the various testimonies.

“Let them mind their own business, those people”, the defendant replies, with a dark look, in the dock. He refuses to acknowledge hitting his father. ” He often fell, “, he will only let out. For the Millavois' counsel, Me Laurent Ballanger, “we must not be afraid of words and say it clearly: my client's brain is eaten away by alcohol and everything he takes. Above all, he needs care".

Care that he will be able to undertake in detention because the court sentenced him to nine months in prison. Upon his release, he will be prohibited from having contact with his ex-partner and his father. But also from frequenting drinking establishments and carrying a weapon for five years. « I have never had any, » he said while projecting himself to … Rodez. "I will ask for accommodation at La Pantarelle". 

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