The cinema evening degenerates, the boxer friend comes to the rescue, he knocks out a father and his son, his partner goes wild.

In a cinema room at Pathé, near Toulouse, tensions escalated between two parents in January 2025. The violence was quickly subdued but flared up again outside. Confrontation of pain before the criminal court of Toulouse.

An adventure story, of explorations and nautical conquests, turned into a nightmare. “From Vaiana 2, this young girl will only remember darkness. Seeing her father on the ground, unconscious, perhaps dead. And her brother injured, with a shattered jaw.” Me Camélia Dilmi summarizes in one sentence an evening of festivities that turned into a brawl at the beginning of 2025 outside the cinema in Labège, on the outskirts of Toulouse.

“A child was hitting the chair. I asked them to stop, once. The second time, this woman went wild, five minutes of insanity,” recalls a father. “She attacked me,” defends the mother, a young woman whose face displayed real tension before the judges. The conflict calmed down, but Priscilia, 25 years old, called her partner. He waited outside.

Fractured jaw, suffering, and nightmares

“Two men attacking a woman, it deserved explanations,” specifies Richard, 30 years old. Under his shirt, one can feel the physique of an athlete in this boxer. His victims are also athletic. But they didn’t see it coming. “For me, this story was over,” indicates the father. At the cinema exit, he didn’t see the partner coming from behind, and the solid punch that immediately knocked him out. His son, also dazed, managed to muster the strength to pull the young woman off his unconscious father, who was being struck “like a hammer.”

“The pain came later, once at the hospital,” recalls the athletic young man. “The pain was terrible. A night of horror despite the morphine.” Double jaw fracture (30 days of legal incapacity), suffering, rehabilitation, and nightmares still haunt his nights. “When I go out, I’m not comfortable. I’m afraid. And I wonder if I would be able to intervene in case of difficulty. Or to move on to avoid another story.”

The broadcast of the video of the incident plunges him back into his anxieties. Tears that he quickly wipes away to face the audience, support his father who still blames himself. “I couldn’t protect my son or my daughter.” A blonde little girl sits quietly in the room, next to her mother. She saw everything, vomited on the spot “due to stress,” notes Me Dilmi. She is accompanied by a psychologist, like her brother. Their father rejects the idea and keeps his anxieties confined to his home, away from the dark rooms.

When the hitter apologizes, his partner closes off, with a dark look. The president tries to understand. Nothing comes out. “This woman, placed in foster care from the age of 3, grew up without parents in foster homes. It wasn’t always easy. Today, she remains silent because, in reality, she is scared. Scared of her past, of reproach, of the image that this case reflects on her role as a single mother raising her daughter,” reveals her lawyer, Me Marjolaine Grauteau.

Me Margaux Boiteau accompanies “an educator for troubled children, a hairdresser who teaches boxing. Who knows how to keep calm, but lost it that evening. He recognizes it. And admitting it is already a lot, a first step.” The counsel wants to prevent the court from stripping him of his role as an educator “that he exercises with patience and that we need.”

The court, after a brief deliberation, follows the prosecutor’s requests: three years in prison for the two accused, including two years on probation. They will have to pay significant damages to be determined later. And Richard can no longer work with minors.