In the Mulhouse court on Thursday, a 47-year-old man was tried for domestic violence, deprivation of liberty and sexual assault against his wife, a young Moroccan woman who had moved in with him in the Cité du Bollwerk at the end of 2021. Sentence: four years’ imprisonment, two of them suspended.
A 47-year-old man, who had been in pre-trial detention since his arrest in April 2022, was in the dock on Thursday July 6 at the criminal court in Mulhouse on charges of domestic violence by a spouse, deprivation of liberty and sexual assault by a spouse, the latter offence suggesting rape, which had been redefined as such in agreement with the joint prosecution.
The accused, who is from Morocco and lives in Mulhouse, had known the victim, Yasmina (*), a Moroccan woman in her twenties, via Facebook. They married in Morocco and the young woman came to live with the 40-year-old in France in mid-December 2021, reports presiding judge Tiffany Gamain.
Yasmina reported that the violence began the day she arrived in France because her husband accused her of not wearing a djellaba. During the three and a half months the couple spent together in Mulhouse, the violence happened almost daily. L’Alsace
She is lucky to be alive