Hypothesis versus hypothesis. In the absence of certainties, the development of scenarios has heated up the brains since Monday, faced with an accused stuck to her truth. Nawal and Inès, her daughters aged 11 and 12, last seen in December 2016, are, according to her, alive and well. Judicial truth sided with the prosecution, anchored to a…
Hypothesis versus hypothesis. In the absence of certainties, the development of scenarios has heated up the brains since Monday, faced with an accused stuck to her truth. Nawal and Inès, her daughters aged 11 and 12, last seen in December 2016, are, according to her, alive and well. Judicial truth sided with the prosecution, anchored to an opposing interpretation.
Without proof that the two sisters with multiple disabilities continued their existence with trusted third parties to whom their mother would have entrusted them, their death was recorded by the jurors. Just like the responsibility of Naïma Bel Allam, found guilty of aggravated double murder and sentenced to 14 years of criminal imprisonment.
“Since Monday, we have asked him to provide proof of life,” recalled the attorney general. During the investigation, he was also offered to provide it through his lawyers, with the guarantee that no research would be undertaken. I know very well that she will never admit to having been able to take action. My conviction is that Naïma Bel Allam serves a fable that she modifies, improves, adapts, according to the results of the investigations. For what ? If the goal is to remove her children from institutions, she could do it, go abroad, no one would have stopped her. I don’t understand the thesis she’s putting forward,” noted Corinne Chateigner.
Convinced of the exhaustion of the mother, audible in view of the solitary care of children with multiple disabilities presenting eating and behavioral disorders, the magistrate established this moral and physical fatigue as a trigger, ratified in the judgment rendered In the evening.
Silence cruel
Between the question marks, “a void” to fill for the civil parties. Me Virginie Belacel, counsel for the grandmother and uncle of the missing girls, says it again: “We are certain about a version which cannot be the correct one. Four questions remain: Where? When ? How ? For what ? »
The lawyer for Inès and Nawal’s father insists: “It’s been stopping him from sleeping for seven years. What happened ? This silence is cruel and requires us to admit the unthinkable: a devoted mother can, at a given moment, take a life,” assures M.e Sylvie Brussiau.
After four years spent in pre-trial detention, Naïma Bel Allam, under judicial supervision since November 2021, returned to her place of detention in the evening.
“A woman and a mother whose system makes her presumed guilty,” pleaded Me Sophie Grolleau. It’s so easy to accuse without proof, Naïma Bel Allam did not kill the girls, she did the opposite. It is the process of absolute sacrifice, of maternal love. » His colleague admitted: “It may be difficult to understand her phobia of institutions, but who are we to judge her without having experienced what she experienced? We could criticize her for not indicating, at least to her family, where the children are… In her schema, she believes that she does not have to be accountable to people who left her alone,” noted Me Patrick Lamarque.
