Théo Gense, 25 years old, appears for domestic violence. Under judicial supervision since November 7 for a first series of acts, he was the subject of a new release and provisional detention for new acts against his partner.
“For me, there was no violence,” said the defendant, who was staying with his brother-in-law. There were indeed the damage.” On January 6, he showed up at his partner’s home in Maucourt“to speak”. He came to reproach her for her infidelity, with a recording of the conversation as proof. She opened the door for him.
“We have been together since November 2023,” he says, about his couple, at the helm of the Compiègne court. They were going to separate. Jealous, he monitored her actions, searched through her phone. He’s the one who has it when she files a complaint. He grabbed it because she threatened to call the police.
“My mother’s life, don’t hang around alone…”
The discussion gets heated. He’s going to smoke a cigarette to calm down. “I was drunk and on drugs,” he admits. He starts banging on the windows of the house and the car. She denounces a headbutt, says she fell to the ground, before taking a kick in the stomach. He almost threw a tile at her, adds his mother, who managed to push him away.
“She told me that I would no longer see the child,” he explains. I took his mother’s phone and blew it up. I took a tile to throw at the door they had closed.”
She also filed a complaint for a non-compliance with the contact ban. “We talked and saw each other,” he confirms. She describes threats, “but that means nothing to her at all.” Malicious calls? “Yes, I recognize these calls”, but not necessarily their malicious nature. “It’s just the wording of the offense that he contests,” intervenes his lawyer, Anthony Alexandre.
“I won’t go to prison for nothing”, or “stay in your place”… And again “my mother’s life, don’t hang around alone…”, he wrote to her. “I don’t remember the messages,” he said on the stand. I recognize the calls. I was drunk and on drugs.”
“It went way too far.”
Knowing that the police were coming, he hid in his in-laws’ attic all afternoon. He said he was hit with a golf club by an occupant. “I raised my hands,” assures the defendant, who admits the home invasion. “Wasn’t it easier to get out?” the court asks. “No,” he replies, “because I found myself face to face with the occupants.”
“It went way too far,” he said generally. I want this to stop. I no longer want any contact with bracelet. I thought a lot during my period of detention.” The last time, he assured the courts that he would stay in Dordogne, preventing any repeat offense. But he returned to Compiégnois. “I surrounded myself with bad people, and I got back into drugs…”
“Find my children”
“You do not recognize the violence as it was denounced,” notes his lawyer. But don’t you at least recognize it? If you dropped it while trying to open the door, that’s violence.” He consents.
The defendant has four entries in his record, notably for carrying a weapon (brass knuckles), for driving without a license… “Detention, for some people, is perhaps the good life, but not for me,” he declares. -he. I just want to find my children. Recently, I haven’t seen them anymore. I will not repeat what happened.”
Maître Voisin is frustrated to see “such a selective memory” in the defendant. “My clients don’t expect much from this hearing, other than protection. Several months later, there is no questioning. On the contrary, he tends to blame my client. She consents to an anti-reconciliation bracelet.”
Home detention under electronic surveillance
For the prosecutor, the immediate appearance is justified due to non-compliance with the contact ban. “There was a worsening of the situation in a very short period of two months. There is a lot of physical violence, as proven by the medical certificate.” The prosecutor requests eight months in prison, including five months suspended for two years. With the obligations of work, psychological care and for alcohol, to follow an awareness course on domestic violence, and prohibition of contact.
“I am not saying that the civil party is lying, but perhaps she is misinterpreting,” argues the defense lawyer. The clinical examination does not characterize kicks in the stomach. But there were acts of violence, which I made him acknowledge. If she falls, it’s her fault.”
The court pronounces a sentence of eighteen months in prison, ten months of which will be suspended for two years. With work obligations, care, to compensate the plaintiff, with whom he is prohibited from contacting and from going to the village of Maucourt. The court agrees on the principle of home detention under electronic surveillance. “But while waiting for the device to be installed within five days maximum,” he remains in detention. The court returns on civil interests on May 15.
