The prosecution requested a year and a half in prison suspended probation in a care center for perpetrators of domestic violence against S. Lemouneau, former professional pelota player, now manager of a karting circuit in Briscous. Judged this Tuesday, November 2 at the Bayonne courthouse, he is suspected of having physically and verbally abused his wife since 2014. The deliberation must be delivered on November 16.
Rather laconic at the helm, the 35-year-old denies the acts of violence with which he is accused. When the president reminds him that the victim accuses him of punches, kicks, insults and threats, especially death, he retorts that she “Certainly seeks revenge for his infidelities”. Faced with his statements before the investigators, where he had admitted some violence, the defendant explains that his custody was trying: “It lasted more than 40 hours and I was pressured”.
Post-traumatic stress recognized during exams
Even if he signed the police custody reports, the president reminds him, the business manager therefore denies what he is accused of. Facing him, the victim, his wife for 5 years, testifies to a climate of fear and dependence for 7 years. Throughout her testimony, the young woman wriggles her hands, remarks the prosecutor, who sees “Another proof of post-traumatic stress confirmed by the doctor who examined her”.
Moved, sometimes sobbing, the young woman recounts the first years, before marriage and the discreet appearance of psychological and verbal violence. Then came, in 2016 during a trip to Rome, the first physical violence: “I saw a text message on his cell phone suggesting that he was cheating on me. I wanted to leave the hotel room. He pushed me up the stairs, the fall was violent and I lost consciousness ”, she says. “Then he apologized, which he always did after the violence, promising that he would change and stop.”
The young woman also tells that he “strangled her twice”, often threatened with death and not to pay her her salary. A situation of dependence underlined by the prosecution, which notes that the victim works in the karting managed by the defendant, and recalls that an employee of the circuit reported to the investigators “often insulting and degrading” remarks on the part of the 35-year-old man.
Placed under judicial supervision after the filing of a complaint last August, the former pilotari prohibition to contact or approach the victim. The verdict must be pronounced by the court of Bayonne on November 16.