January 27 in the morning, Diougale Barry, 49 years oldis presented at the hearing of immediate appearance at the Beauvais court (Oise) after a brief police custody and his referring to the public prosecutor, for acts of violence committed on his wife. They took place the previous days, January 24 and 25.
In his complaint, the wife declares that her husband returned after an absence of a few days. That very quickly, an argument bursts punctuated with slaps and indelicate words and that the next day, upstairs of the house, a new argument opposes them about the accused’s mother-in-law, that the family has been hosting for more a year. With slaps and kicks.
He takes a knife to scare his wife
When the husband descends, he discovers that a sum of two or three thousand euros has disappeared. He then armled with a knife, “To scare his wifeAnd demands its return. All he gets is a complaint with the gendarmerie that will lead to his placement in police custody.
The wife, she was examined by a psychiatrist who finds her coherent remarks and attributes five days of total incapacity for work for the facts of 24, and six days for those of 26. The defendant, whose criminal record includes Three convictions for road crimes which have nothing to do with violence, was also examined by a psychiatrist who has not detected the slightest anomaly.
“An ideal man” and “a perfect dad”
In court, Diougale Barry explains that he arrived at his home on January 24 after receiving a text from her daughter where she complains about her mother: “She persecutes meShe would write. The man was turned upside down to learn that. “”An ideal man“, As his wife describes at the hearing, and”A perfect daddyWho has always taken care of this disabled child. In addition, he does not get an answer when he asks what’s food tonight. This is how the argument started against excessive expenditure. “”I showed her the expenses I made, but she didn’t want to hear anything.»»
What he wanted is to take a shower. When it was done, he went down and discovered the disappearance of his money, it was then that he wanted to “scare him” and that it did not work. He admits having made slaps but denies the punches and footed by his mother-in-law and his daughter who attended the two scenes.
Hit for 30 years, she found it normal
The wife is a civil party but does not require compensation, “Just so that the truth burst». According to him, the kicks and fists took place as well as sputum. But, apart from that, for her “He is a dad and an ideal man, children are kings and I am the slave. For him, I am the sheep woman who spoils her children at all costs».
She confides that they have lived together since 1995, that he is the commander, that he does not want to be contradicted and that she supported his violence during these almost thirty years, “because she thought it’s normal». Until it comes across an article on the Internet indicating that no, it is not normal, that it cannot accept this and that you have to make a choice. She is afraid of him and wants to live in an apartment they have in Paris, with her boys. She leaves him the house of Fitz-James.
The prosecution requires a two -year sentence
The deputy prosecutor parallels the versions of the members of the couple: “She was struck for decades and finally found the courage to file a complaint. The description of the violence of the facts described by the accused is very different from that of his wife. There is a risk of recurrence that the expert psychiatrist also points». She requests a sentence of two years in prison, including twelve months in prison and twelve months under suspended probationary for two years, with obligation of psychological care, work, prohibition to appear at her wife’s home and meet her for two years . Without pronouncing a deposit warrant.
The defense lawyer points out that the “procedure has not been very deepened, it is therefore difficult to draw final conclusions». He also noted that work disabilities were pronounced, not by a doctor of the medico-judicial unit, but by a psychiatrist, which has no value in the criminal sense. The medical examiner fixes them at zero days. “”He immediately recognized the facts, he had already followed, on his initiative, by a psychiatrist, he took charge of his disabled daughter, all this constitutes a reassuring discourse.»»
No firm prison
The court took into account its locker which does not include convictions for violence, that it is its first appearance for violence, and that it is aware of the gravity of the facts. Diougale Barry was sentenced to eighteen months in prison completely accompanied by probationary stay for two years. With obligation of psychotherapeutic care, a ban on meeting his wife and appearing at home for two years, paying the sums due to the public treasury and having a weapon. The wife is received in his constitution of civil party for the manifestation of the truth.