The Haute-Savoie Assize Court on Friday sentenced a 22-year-old young man to 20 years of criminal imprisonment for the murder of his stepfather. The accused killed his father-in-law, a 64-year-old farmer, in January 2021 with a gun on a farm in Pringy, near Annecy, where he was an apprentice. He had also injured his mother-in-law and her partner.
The Annecy court accepted premeditation and considered that his discernment had been impaired at the time of the act. He was also convicted of aggravated willful violence against his mother-in-law and his ex-partner.
“Branded”
A notable element of the case, this judgment comes after the conviction, by the same court in 2012, of the young man’s father to 10 years of criminal imprisonment, for having fatally shot his own father-in-law two years earlier.
“The consequences of this dramatic event will be such as to definitively and indelibly mark this kid with a hot iron,” pleaded during the hearing the young man’s lawyer, Me Rimondi, stressing that his client was 8 years old at the time. time of the crime committed by his father.
He considered that “the jurors were sensitive to this period of life that he lived in extremely traumatic conditions”, recalling that his client faced life imprisonment and that the attorney general had requested twenty-two years of imprisonment. imprisonment.
The 20-year prison sentence was accompanied by an injunction for treatment and a ban on entering into contact with the civil parties.
The latter said they were “relieved” by the verdict, especially the removal measures, reacted their lawyer Jean-François Jullien, describing the sentence as “perfectly fair”.
