A decision that never ceases to shock. On Thursday 18 April the Court of Appeal of Metz, Moselle, acquitted Yves Millaformer major of the border police, tried for violence against his ex-wife and his children, as we informed you a few days ago.
This, even if it was convicted in the first instance to 18 months of suspended prison, total revocation of parental rights, as well as completing a course on parental responsibility.
The reason for this relaxation? The court of appeal evokes a “right of correction”, tradition banned in principle from 2019the former major having admitted to having a ” harsh and severe education with (his) children “.
The right to correction, a principle that justifies violence against minors if “proportionate”
In its 27-page decision, the Court recalls that Yves Milla’s eldest son had reported “ big slaps in the face “, blows to the stomach or be “ attached to the wall “From his father” when we don’t do the laundry properly, if we don’t get very good grades “.” He’s always aggressive, even when he tells me something positive “, he revealed, citing fatherly threats and insults.
The appeals court says the policeman actually inflicted “violence” on his son, but violence” proportionate “, we can read in the court decision made public byFrench media agency. Clearly this violence would be useful for education. In this lies the principle of the right to rectification, which “ it is recognized to parents and currently authorizes the criminal judge to refrain from sanctioning perpetrators of violence as long as they have not caused harm to the minor, remain proportionate to the violation committed and do not present any humiliating character “, Remember The Parisian. Therefore, according to the courts of Metz, Yves Milla did not inflict “on his children” humiliating punishments, such as flogging or being forced to eat from the floor “, they estimated.
This decision is scandalous Girolamo Tiberilawyer of Yves Milla’s children, for whom the right to correction is a pretext.
“When there are kids who come and say we’ll grab them by the neck, that we’ll strangle them, that we’ll put them against the wall, that we’ll put a service weapon on the desk to do their homework, we don’t do it. rigorous education (…) This is violence pure and simple. »
Girolamo Tiberi
Ordinary educational violence: a shocking new campaign
The law expressly prohibits the right to correction since 2019, after the adoption of a bill on the prohibition of ordinary educational violence. Irony of fate. this April 23rd, a new campaign by the Stop VEO association, on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the so-called “anti-spanking” law of 2019. On this occasion, interviewed by Le Parisien, Gilles Lazimi, general practitioner and president of the Stop VEO association, recalls that “80% of French people suffered violence as children and, according to the latest study on the subject, carried out in 2022, 79% of parents still admit to resorting to this same educational violence.”
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