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“It Has Been 1,424 Days Since I Lost All Contact With My Children”: Father Appeals Prison Sentence in Geneva

From Le Temps · () French

Translated from French and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • A father sentenced to five and a half years in prison has appealed his conviction before Geneva’s Criminal Appeals Chamber.
  • He has kept a detailed count of the holidays and birthdays he has missed during more than three years without contact with his two children.
  • The defendant says he acted out of extreme distress, while a psychiatric expert described his convictions as delusional.

“It has been 1,424 days since I lost all contact with my children.” The father keeps a meticulous count of every Christmas, birthday and holiday he has missed with his two young children during three years, eight months, three weeks and three days of a no-contact order.

He is appealing a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence handed down at first instance. The defendant has spent 16 months at Champ-Dollon prison after repeatedly and deliberately breaching restrictions imposed during an intense parental conflict.

It has been 1,424 days since I lost all contact with my children.

· The defendantHe described the period covered by the no-contact order involving his two children.

At the end of the week, he appeared before Geneva’s Criminal Appeals Chamber. He described immense distress and accused the authorities and the system of destroying his family. The original conviction concerned conduct that put his family through hell and created mortal danger on the road.

The father remains increasingly angry at the system and the authorities. The psychiatric expert characterized his certainty as delusional, but he maintained his position on appeal: “I could not act otherwise, it simply was not po...”

I could not act otherwise, it simply was not po...

· The defendantHe repeated his argument during the appeal hearing; the source text ends mid-sentence.
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Originally published by Le Temps in French. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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