Three years in prison with probationary suspension were requested on Monday by the Namur public prosecutor’s office before the Namur criminal court, against a man born in 1984 prosecuted for acts of domestic violence committed between 2017 and 2020 in Namur. A second scene took place in Gembloux, last January.
The man was 32 years old when he got into a relationship with a 16-year-old girl. She becomes pregnant a few months later. “But very quickly, the separations and visits to the emergency room are numerous”, specifies the parquet floor of Namur. The victim’s first official complaint dates from October 2019. The beatings were observed at the Namur CHR where the defendant was still violent when he came to look for his companion. “The security service must intervene”, pleads the civil party.
The scenes of violence continue. Like May 26, 2020 when Madame announces that she will end their relationship. He would have threatened her with a weapon, declaring: “if you take the little one, I will kill you”. As part of a search, several weapons were found at the defendant’s home and in his car: two rifles under the marital bed, a handgun from the bathroom, a fragmentation grenade and a telescopic baton in his car.
All these acts of violence, the defendant contests them. “Their goal, to her and her family, is to put me in prison and erase me from society. Shots ? I too can strike myself and go and see that. “For the weapons held illegally, the man indicates that he was the subject of an attempted murder in 2016. “I am one of the travellers. I prefer to know how to defend myself. »
On the night of January 23 to 24, between 1 a.m. and 3 a.m., the defendant telephoned his ex 30 times, returning to live with his mother in Gembloux, to threaten her. He finally goes to her house. To see his son, he said. But the situation degenerates. Climbing into her car with her 2-year-old son to discuss, the ex-companion finds herself a prisoner. Drunk, the man starts with a bang, runs several red lights and does not let her get off. Arbitrary detention and obstruction of traffic are blamed on the thirties.
The latter is obviously not a tender and seems to make his own law. The Namur public prosecutor’s office points in particular to his criminal record: 44 convictions, mainly for acts of driving and by default. But also some correctional, for acts of violence. “He is also the subject of 66 complaints,” adds the public prosecutor. Despite this context, the defense pleads the probationary stay. Judgment July 28.