Almost four years after Adelissa’s murder in Mandeure in October 2018, her companion, author of the fatal blows, was sentenced last night by the Doubs Assize Court to 24 years in prison.
The audience drew the portrait of an authoritarian, possessive and fragile defendant. “A Dangerous Personality” for the General Counsel. “A psychopathic monster” according to the civil party. Faced with a companion, Adelissa, “ under the influence “. “She had become his thing” his mother will say. ” Its prey “ for his lawyer.
“I hit and squeezed very hard with the cord of the straightener”
On the day of the tragedy, in the privacy of the family apartment rue Pergaud in Mandeure, the young mother of the family announced to her companion that she wanted to break up. The outbreak of violence is immediate, in the presence of the couple’s 13-month-old daughter. After the tragedy, the young man calls the gendarmes to tell them “I killed my wife. I shot him”
– Christopher Beck
Asked about the facts, this October 25, 2018, the young man evokes a black hole, after Adelissa announces the breakup to him. “I begged him to stay, then I punched, punched, punched. And I squeezed very, very hard with the cord of the straightener. I no longer knew what I was doing.” Adelissa will succumb” to mechanical asphyxia “, according to the medical expert who specifies thatat least three minutes of compression are necessary to achieve this fatal result.
“An Eternity” insists the general counsel, Stéphanie Rival, as if to hammer home the homicidal intent. “Killing was his last resort to deal with the separation.” She requires 30 years of criminal imprisonment with a security period of 20 years. As well as a total withdrawal of parental authority over the couple’s daughter.
The defense finally pleads the intention to kill
The defense strategy will evolve during these two days of trial. After considering supporting the madness, his lawyers decide to “plead guilty to the homicidal intent, because that is the reality of the case”explains Randal Schwerdorffer, for the defense.
– Christopher Beck
The accused is presented as a fragile man with an erratic journey from his earliest childhood who navigates from institution to institution. ” The young man couldn’t bear the idea of losing Adelissa, he was so dependent on it », specifies Master Schwerdorffer who speaks of “crime of passion”.
Another reading on the side of the civil party. Master Sylvie Noachovitch invokes a thoughtful and methodically executed act. “Adelissa thought she had found true love and the trap closed on her”. The young wife would have been isolated from her family and placed under permanent pressure. The psychiatrist expert talks abouta dangerous man who is likely to act again.
A trial to say stop to feminicides
The highlight of the first day of the hearing was the hearing of the victim’s mother, who is keen to testify for all these women who suffer from domestic violence. “Adelissa was a happy and radiant girl whom her cousins called darling”, says Emira, the mother. “A beautiful girl who made the whole family happy… Until the day she met this individual. This man has brainwashed him. She had become his thing. He put us through hell”. Then, she gives news of the couple’s little girl, now five years old, of whom she has custody. “Every evening, we watch for the stars to see Adelissa”
When the verdict was announced, Adelissa’s family let their relief burst out. “Justice is done, especially for the little one” said Adelissa’s dad, thinking of the little girl who is now five years old. “Through this trial, we want to provide support for all women victims of domestic violence” adds the victim’s uncle. “And we think a lot of Sarah Limane, who died in Little Holland a year ago. She herself commented on Adelissa’s murder on Facebook”, concludes the sister. Sarah Limane is this 27-year-old young woman, who died in an apartment in Petite Hollande in Montbéliard, just a year ago. His companion is on the run.