The Nancy Court of Appeal sentenced Kevin Boulesteix to 18 years in prison this Thursday for the murder of Logan Schmidthis cousin by marriage, in June 2019 in Sarreguemines.
The same sentence was handed down at first instance in 2022 by the Moselle Assize Court against this 34-year-old man, accused of having shot the 22-year-old victim three times in the street.
Fatal blow to the chest
The general advocate had required a sentence of eighteen to twenty yearsbelieving that “ homicidal intent when Kevin Boulesteix intentionally shoots Logan Schmidt a second and third time » is beyond doubt. Logan Schmidt died of a fatal blow to the chest, which “ couldn’t leave alone » she adds.
As he approached the victim, sitting in front of his partner’s home, in a car, the accused took out a gun to shoot him in the foot, then two more shots. Kevin Boulesteix said the gunshots “went off on their own » and that it was an accident.
His lawyers failed to reclassify the facts as fatal violence leading to death without intention of causing it.
A drug debt
The accused had been found after a ten-day runto finally be arrested in an apartment in Palavas-Les-Flots, in Hérault.
The motive for the crime is linked to a drug debt.
The victim’s mother, Christiane Schmidt, said she was “finally relieved”.
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