Chloé, 24, found unconscious in the lobby of a building after being beaten by her former companion, has “cognitive and locomotor disorders” and “blindness in the right eye”, according to the prosecutor.
She will keep “definitive sequelae”. Chloé, the 24-year-old young woman who came out of a coma after being violently attacked by her ex-companion in mid-December in Blois (Loir-et-Cher), will retain blindness in one eye, the prosecution revealed, Tuesday February 21 . On February 13, she was the subject of a medical report which concluded that the “cerebral hemorrhagic lesions” initially observed are “in direct and certain connection” with the facts of December 13, 2022, said the prosecutor of the Republic of Blois, Charlotte Beluet.
Two hours before her assault, Chloé had gone to the reception of the Blois police station where she had been invited to return the next day. The IGPN has opened an investigation. The police officer who had not taken the complaint was suspended as a precaution. Chloe’s 27-year-old ex-companion admitted kicking the victim in the head but denied intending to kill her. He was remanded in custody as part of a criminal investigation for attempted murder.
“A permanent infirmity”
“Currently, the vital prognosis of the young woman is no longer engaged”, pursues Charlotte Beluet, but, although the victim “communicates verbally, that she is mobilizing alone, the neurological prognosis remains gloomy with definitive sequelae to be expected, in particular blindness of the right eye, cognitive disorders, and at least locomotor disorders”. This blindness “constitutes a permanent disability”underlines the prosecutor.
Besides, “if she is conscious and seems to understand the questions, the young woman does not answer them in an appropriate way”, according to the magistrate, adding that the victim presents “an amnesia of the facts”. The state of health of Chloé, hospitalized for two months, “requires several more weeks, even several months, in an adapted functional rehabilitation center”according to Charlotte Beluet.
In France, pAlmost 208,000 victims of domestic violence were identified by the security services in 2021, 87% of them women. .
Women victims of violence can contact 3919, a free and anonymous telephone number. This listening, information and orientation platform is accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This number guarantees people’s anonymity, but is not an emergency number like 17, which allows his part, in the event of immediate danger, to telephone the police or the gendarmerie.