French Woman Jailed For 18 Months For Torturing Boyfriend
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Maxime Gaget has published a book about his experiences called "My Girlfriend. My Torturer"
A Frenchwoman who kept her boyfriend as a "domestic slave", forcing him to ingest sponges and window cleaner, was Thursday sentenced to three years in prison, half of which was suspended.
Zakia Medkour, 43, was also ordered to pay 200,000 euros ($217,000) in damages to her ex-boyfriend Maxime Gaget, 37, for crimes which the prosecution said went "beyond violence" with a "female torturer and a male victim".
The pair met in 2007 on the Internet and seven months later moved into a Parisian studio where Medkour lived with her two children.
The court heard how Medkour stole Gaget's identity papers and credit cards, forced him to sleep on the floor near the front door and prevented him from accessing the toilet.
For over a year he suffered beatings, insults, she burned him with cigarettes or a white-hot knife, threw salt into his eyes and blocked his contact with the outside world.
Medkour told him that if he rebelled, she would accuse him of paedophilia.
"In the beginning there were feelings and then fear and then shame," Gaget told the court.
"It is hard for a man to admit he is being beaten by a woman. I also stayed to protect the children."
Gaget in February published a book about his experiences called "My Girlfriend. My Torturer" which has helped lift the taboo about domestic abuse against men in France.
In the book, Gaget said he wanted to publicise the fact "that such atrocities exist, and are unfortunately not isolated issues."
An estimated 7,000 men file complaints about domestic abuse each year in France, according to the SOS Hommes Battus (Abused Men) a.ssociation.
Many more are believed to be affected but too ashamed to come forward.
During the trial Medkour tearfully apologised to her former boyfriend, saying she was "not heartless".
Her lawyers ascribed her behaviour to her troubled past: her father committed suicide when she was a child, she grew up in children's homes and became an alcoholic.
They also said she suffered from a bi-polar mental disorder.
As part of her sentence Medkour has to undergo psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation for her alcoholism.
Medkour's prison sentence is considered "convertible" under French law, which means she could eventually escape jail time and perform community service, wear an electronic bracelet or be allowed to work part time.
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KingFreeman wrote: »
I repeatedly said this to myself as I was going through the article. -
This story makes no ? sense to me...you saying he couldn't just walk out any anytime? He couldn't just rick her ? and take his cards back the ? ??
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ha ha, ? certified ? , he's a pussyhole, ha ha
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Well, he is French.
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? submitted his freedom.For over a year he suffered beatings, insults, she burned him with cigarettes or a white-hot knife, threw salt into his eyes and blocked his contact with the outside world.
Foh. He was good to lay the murder game down in self defense at that point. (He should have punched her in her ? long before that.)
He's a ? and he should be ashamed. I rather die then give up my freedom and get beat and brutalized like a slave by some crazy ass ? I was just ? . ? is this. How he get out? -
He slept on the floor next to the front door. Why didn't he just open it and leave? Unless it was some type of ? beat me good situation.
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I need to find a woman who would dominate me like that.
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Will Munny wrote: »I need to find a woman who would dominate me like that.
I'll beat your ? ass like the white slave you wanna be. -
The french finally wins a physical altercation.
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? get ur ass up off the floor and go home if you don't like it tf
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ol we we ass ?
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Will Munny wrote: »I need to find a woman who would dominate me like that.
I'll beat your ? ass like the white slave you wanna be.
@Pico in might in LA for a wedding sometime. We should hang out. -
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Frenchwoman who kept her boyfriend as a "domestic slave", forcing him to ingest sponges and window cleaner, was Thursday sentenced to three years in prison, half of which was suspended.
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I guess the judge realized that he was a ? ? too and decided to lower her sentence cause he wasn't gonna do ? anyway.
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lol
How come they don't have any pictures up of the wife? -
on a serious note, french peeps are some real ? , the french peeps i've met have been all been certified, you get this type of john mudda focka's westwide, these clowns don't represent france all any other country really & truly
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^^^shut up ?
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suck your mudda 20 times, till her ? turn blue & suck bumhole, then go suck off your sister nasty stinky manky ? & give your ? fadda a ? wash, ha ha & no back & forth nerd ? neither, i'm gone, london, its serious, its serious, get money movements, i'm out, lets go
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They mustn't have Elevators in France
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How much time would he have gotten if the situation was reversed?
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50 Shades sequel on the way
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She's 6 years older than him as well.
Soft ass dude. Don't like using these terms on the net especially but ? have to.... beta as ? .