After four days of trial behind closed doors, the Pontoise children’s court reclassified the facts of “murder” as “murder of a 15-year-old minor”.
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They remained silent in the box at the announcement of the judgment. A 16-year-old boy and girl were sentenced Thursday, April 7 to 10 years in prison by the Pontoise juvenile court (Val-d’Oise) for the murder of Alisha, 14, harassed, beaten and drowned in the Seine in 2021.
After four days of trial behind closed doors, the court reclassified the facts of “murder” as “murder of a 15-year-old minor”, considering “that there did not appear sufficiently characterized elements” proving the will “preparatory acts” in view of the girl’s death.
But the teenagers had “mindfulness” of the situation and “could not ignore the manifest condition of the victim” who has them “begged”, added the president.
The two defendants – he had curly hair, she had a bun and thin glasses – were also jointly and severally ordered to pay 180,000 euros in damages for moral damage to Alisha’s family.
“It’s not normal, I expected something from the law. They will be out in 10 years. My daughter was killed. They killed my daughter, they threw her in the water”shouted the mother of the victim in the corridors of the courthouse.
The 14-year-old schoolgirl succumbed on March 8, 2021 to an ambush set by her two classmates in Argenteuil, northwest of Paris. His death in sordid conditions had caused a considerable stir, leading more than 2,000 people to march to the white march organized in his memory shortly after the tragedy.