Showbiz Yesterday it became known that Dimitri Bontinck (45), father of ex-Syriëstrijder Jejoen Bontinck, a prison term of risk of eight months for intimate partner violence. According to the public prosecutor, he has his girlfriend in may 2018 severely beaten up, something Bontinck strongly denies. But how does it in the meantime actually with the man who for many years not from the media was the way to save? We talked to Dimitri Bontinck recently about how his life looks right now.

“This should not be a circus in the media. In the past, I am unilaterally as a witch to the public pillory nailed. My safety is thereby jeopardized.” – With these words began Bontinck to the process of the court. He had the right in a violent manner be asked to take the matter behind closed doors to deal with, but that was not the request. “In this way I get no chance at a fair trial,” said Bontinck. But his trouble was in vain.

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Bontinck state for intimate partner violence. According to the public prosecutor, he has his girlfriend in may 2018 heavily damaged in the Corbiestraat in Mol. “Bontinck was together with his girlfriend to a meetings. Once back at home he began her to belittle. He made with his finger in a cutting motion across his throat, and made her scared”, explained prosecutor Patti Broeckx the situation. The verbal violence and the threats escalated to physical violence. According to the research has Bontinck his girlfriend at the knee, pounded, in, her nose bitten and her eye struck. “Bontinck denies, but the photos in the dossier speak for themselves,” continues Patti Broeckx. “Dimitri claims that the woman to self-mutilation and they the injury itself has caused. But how can a man himself now in the own nose biting?” There is a prison sentence against him demanded. “The man has previously been convicted for domestic violence. When were each suspended sentences imposed. Now is the time for an effective prison sentence.”