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Domestic violence

Written by Administrator Monday, 30 May 2011 05:21

Domestic violence between spouses or partners, are severely punished by law and lead to penalties according to severity. The Criminal Code as well as being a spouse or partner of the victim is an aggravating factor for the author of this violence!

How domestic violence are they punished?

Criminal law

In criminal domestic violence are punished according to their severity.

* The minor violence between spouses

Are considered minor, the violence has not led to very significant injury. It is violence that would not justify a work stoppage or just a stop less than 8 days.

For example were described as minor assaults, physical abuse such as slaps, or the fact of a person rushing and shoving, but the facts causing serious emotional shock, such as threatening with a weapon.

When the perpetrator is the spouse or minor partner of the victim, he shall be punished by three years imprisonment and 45,000 euros fine.

* The violence causing a total incapacity to work more than eight days

When committed by a person's spouse or partner, they are punishable by five years imprisonment and 75,000 euros fine.

* The violence involving mutilation or permanent disability

Such violence between spouses or partners are punished by fifteen years' imprisonment.

* The violence resulting in death of the victim

When the violence committed by a spouse on his or her companion caused her death, the penalty is twenty years imprisonment.

Civil Law

Domestic violence is also reflected on the civil as the Civil Code refers to them as "serious or repeated violation of the duties and obligations of marriage, making it intolerable to maintain the common life '. Such violence is therefore a divorce case and the victim may sue for divorce for cause.