“The police are coming!” : in Montpellier, children provoke the arrest of their father who was raping their mother

When the patrol arrived in this accommodation located south of the town, near the Chemin de Moularès, the man had barely left the room, in which his wife was found prostrate, in a state of shock. She immediately explained that her husband had just hit and raped her, and he was immediately taken into custody, then indicted for rape by a partner and violence against a partner. He was imprisoned while the investigation shed light on what was happening in this couple, married for 23 years.

Separate room for six months

According to the children, the two parents had been sleeping apart for several months, practically no longer speaking to each other on a daily basis, except for violent arguments where insults were thrown. Their mother had filed a complaint denouncing violence by her husband, and wanted to file for divorce. For six months, she had locked her bedroom door every evening, something she would have forgotten that evening.

Furthermore, the husband was reportedly diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2014 but has since refused to seek treatment or take any treatment.

Woke up with punches

Questioned in police custody, without a lawyer, he explained that he suspected his wife of having an affair with another man, "because while we are doing it' #39;love, she whispers his first name" he clarified. And he recognized the reality of all the facts described by his wife that evening. Around midnight, he went to her room and woke her up brutally by punching her, before ordering her to take off her pajama pants, and attempting to thrust it into her vagina. a decorative glass object, oblong in shape.

"I regret the harm I did to him, but I too suffer" he added in police custody.

In tears at the hearing

Tuesday January 23, in front of the investigating chamber of the Montpellier Court of Appeal, where he contested his incarceration, the man, in tears, was unable to utter a single word, while his wife was also in tears in the room. "Il does not seem to understand the reality of the acts committed and their scope. His very posture raises questions, he does not seem to understand the full scope of the case" says his lawyer, Me Emmanuel Pons, who offers accommodation in Normandy, with his sister, while the investigation continues. Decision on January 30.

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