It was a passerby who alerted the police after hearing the woman scream from her balcony. Her husband was brought before a liberty and detention judge on Thursday, and was placed under judicial supervision.
Wednesday at Laxou, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, firefighters came to the aid of a 4-year-old child and a 39-year-old woman, allowing them to evacuate their apartment from their balcony using the large ladder. It is a man who had contacted the emergency services shortly before, alerted by calls for help from this same woman.
Once safe and sound, the latter indicated that she was in dispute with her spouse, who had kept her prisoner in the marital apartment since 2019. Also according to her statements, she had no right to communicate with the outside world. , as indicated actu.fr. During their intervention, the firefighters found that the apartment was locked.
Her 53-year-old husband was arrested during the emergency response. His wife also said he threatened her with a knife when he found out she had started divorce proceedings. Still according to actu.fr, the man had deprived his wife of a cell phone, and only let her go out under “his supervision”.
Placed under judicial control
Contacted by BFMTV.com, the public prosecutor of Nancy indicated that the man, of Algerian nationality, was presented before a judge of freedoms and detention the day after his arrest, on June 30. He was then placed under judicial supervision, with a ban on coming to the marital home, until September 2, 2022, the date of the judgment hearing.
Also according to the public prosecutor, the woman rescued on Wednesday arrived from Algeria in 2019 with their child. Her husband, for his part, indicated that he had brought her to Laxou, convinced that she was cheating on him.
“It was therefore to ensure that she did not start again that he forbade her to go out,” the prosecutor told BFMTV.com.
During his custody, the suspect would have minimized the facts. According to information from The Republican Easthe would currently be unemployed, his small travel agency having not resisted the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.