In the heart of Alès, he hits his partner, damages his car and hits passers-by: he receives 22 months in cell

The victim's car, whose windows and windshield were broken, was still parked in the street this Monday. FREE MIDI – CHARLES LEDUC

The accused, aged 27, was judged in immediate appearance this Monday, January 8, before the criminal court, for acts which took place in the middle of the street, at night, at the start of the weekend.

The images from the video protection of the town of Alès speak for themselves. On the night of Friday 5  on Saturday January 6, avenue du Général-de-Gaulle, in the city center, we see a man hitting a woman in a car. Then, when she is outside, he carries her a brush which causes her to fall heavily. He breaks his cell phone. And even violently attacks two men coming to support the victim…

An insolent defendant regularly put in his place

Arrested and placed in pre-trial detention, this individual, aged 27 and unfavorably known to the courts, is on trial this Monday, January 8, before the criminal court of the capital of the Cévennes. It appears that the young woman is his partner, with whom he had just spent a very drunken evening, that an argument broke out when the car did not want to start, that the defendant also broke the front windows and windshield of the vehicle. "I assume I gave two slaps and a brush, but not punches. I was completely drunk. I don't know what came over me, declares the accused with a somewhat insolent attitude. "I didn’do it for fun. She and I are in excess because we drink to the extreme, and it goes to hell." Regularly put in his place, sometimes harshly, by Julia Salery, the president of the hearing, he finally read a note that he wrote to express his regrets and request treatment.

"Putting your head in the sand and being in denial has a limit"

"He has no awareness of anything”, attacks Sandrine Fabre, in the name of the prosecution, blaming the defendant for everything blame it on alcohol. "Putting your head in the sand and being in denial has a limit." Thirty months in prison, eight of which will be suspended on probation, and continued detention are required.

This trial is "a trigger", argues the defense

For the defense, Me Olivia Betoe assures that this hearing has everything of a "trigger" for her client, that he there is hope that this young man will change.

The court, after deliberating, chose to follow the public prosecutor's indictment to the letter.

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