At the end of fifty minutes of demonstration before the Deux-Sèvres Assize Court on the morning of Wednesday January 22, 2025, Attorney General Nina Blanchon requested life imprisonment against Yunus Cosgun: since the previous Monday, this fifty-year-old was tried at the Niort courthouse for the murder of Patricia Gomit, a 51-year-old social worker found dead on Saturday June 11 2022 in his property in the village of Cersay, in Val-en-Vignes. She was the former partner of the accused, with whom he « you squatted ».
The magistrate combined this sentence with a security period of twenty-two years, “the maximum” in this matter: Ms. Blanchon asks the criminal court to add socio-judicial monitoring over two decades and including, in particular, the ban on staying in Deux-Sèvres. If, upon his release from detention, Yunus Cosgun were to fail to comply with this measure, the Attorney General wants him to face up to seven more years of imprisonment.
“It’s an execution”
The third and final day of the trial opened, a little after 9 a.m., with the pleadings of Mr.e Fabien Arakelian, on behalf of the victim's four daughters and one of the sons-in-law: for the Ile-de-France lawyer, it is not just a murder that the Deux-Sèvres Assize Court is looking into, but “an execution”.
Me Fabien Arakelian also returned to the complaint, closed without further action, filed a month before his violent death by the mother of his clients against Yunus Cosgun, for aggravated violence and death threats. But “The response was not satisfactory. In 2022, there were 115 femicides: Patricia was the 49the. »
-Acquittal pleaded for the “ideal culprit”
In defense, Me Ambroise Garlopeau pleaded for acquittal: while recognizing that his 58-year-old client had “the profile of the ideal culprit”, the lawyer at the Deux-Sèvres bar considers that the case still includes “gray areas” while missing “material and incontestable evidence”.
The verdict will be rendered on Wednesday January 22, 2025, in the afternoon or at the end of the day: after the lunch break and the last words of Yunus Cosgun, the three professional magistrates and the six jurors left to deliberate a little after 1 p.m. 30.
