Carine Ramière was killed by her ex-companion in 2016 with his service weapon, shot in the head. A horror scene that took place while she was in the car with their child, aged 2 and a half at the material time. During his trial in 2020, the little boy is 7 years old and wishes to attend the hearing but he does not have the right to do so. His aunt and sister of the victim who has his custody then asks, with his lawyer, if he can record a message to be broadcast in court. The president takes the time to think and decides to reveal the video, which is overwhelming. Journalist Elise Costa reported this painful moment in one of the episodes of her series published on Slate.fr.
Jean-Régis Julien is the name of the man who killed Mathis’ mother, Carine Ramière. It’s his biological father, but the link ends there. The child, in CE1, thus declared in his filmed message: “What I meant… He’s not my dad anymore. I do not love him anymore. He hurt everyone. He lies about everything he says. All he says is to go out somewhere else, to live somewhere else. And I don’t want… It was hard. It was the worst day of my life, when I was a baby. It scared me very much. I would like to ask him a few questions. Why did he kill my mom? Why did he do that ? Why did he take me in his hands and lead me away? Why… Why did he hurt my mom?“
Before hearing his heartbreaking words, the jury listened to the testimony of the victim’s sister, Christelle, who does not even know if she was able to mourn Carine when she took the little boy under her wing. “intelligent and sensitive“. The one who keeps a Facebook page in his memory tells how he recovers from the drama, with difficulty, while growing in the love of his family. His birthdays which rekindle the wound, the migraines he has as soon as he climbs in the car and his feelings of guilt. He blames himself for not unbuckling his seatbelt to save his mother, and even goes so far as to think that if he didn’t exist, maybe she would be alive. . She adds : “He tells me he has forgotten the sound of his voice, the color of his hair. What he doesn’t forget is that last image of her.” That of “hole in the head“.
The man was sentenced Thursday, June 18, 2021 on appeal by the Assize Court of Vaucluse to a sentence of thirty years of criminal imprisonment, including 20 years of security.