For Attorney General Carine Greff, The man wanted to punish his wife and used a “medieval” technique. “He wanted to kill the woman, not the mother, taking away her power of seduction,” he added.
A eastern france court sentenced a man on Tuesday to 13 years in prison for acts of torture or barbarism after pouring a pot of boiling oil on his wife’s headcausing serious injuries.
The 45-year-old man was tried in Colmar for the events that occurred in July 2020 in the apartment of the couple of Bosnian nationality.
The woman accused her ex-husband of throwing a pot of boiling oil on their heads
Wife accused her current ex-husband of having poured a pot of boiling oil on her head. That day she was transported by helicopter to a hospital and she remained 25 days with treatments under anesthesia. In court, the woman explained that the day before she had asked her partner to leave the next day.
For the general counsel prosecutor Carine Greff, The man wanted to punish his wife and used a “medieval” technique.
““He wanted to kill the woman, not the mother, taking away her power of seduction.”said.
But the defendant insisted that it was a domestic accident. According to him, his wife had heated oil on a stove on a kitchen table. He dropped a cigarette and when he got up, he hit the handle of the pot.
The prosecution, however, presented several indications that invalidated this argument: there was no trace of oil on the table, the liquid spills were “strictly vertical” on the victim’s back, and The husband had traces of burns only on the phalanges of his right hand.
Source: Ambito
