Before the Marne Assize Court, the general advocate requested this Wednesday, December 4 a sentence of 30 years of criminal imprisonment against Jean-Paul Isaki, this 30-year-old man tried since Monday for murder and aggravated rape by the circumstance that they were committed because of the sexual orientation or gender identity of the victim. Regretting that the accused had “murdered in silence” during the refusal trial, the attorney general admitted: “it’s frustrating because we would have liked to understand but we have to look at the facts and for me all the facts are characterized.”
Jean-Paul Isaki is accused of raping and killing Paula, a transgender woman, on April 7, 2021. The 50-year-old victim was killed by 14 scissor stabs at her home on avenue de Laon in Reims. Her female clothes in the bathroom of the apartment had been burned and the victim’s body was found completely naked by emergency services. For the general counsel, there is no doubt, Jean-Paul Isaki had a meeting with the victim, otherwise she would never have opened the door of her home to him that evening in April 2021.
“Today, Jean-Paul Isaki is a dangerous man”
Regarding the two crimes with which he is accused, there are these 14 wounds on the victim’s neck which testify to the desire to kill and the accused admitted to the rape while in police custody. “He himself explained to the investigators that he had forced sexual intercourse, without a condom, on the victim, by holding her head in a pillow, and he then cut the victim’s clothes and hair because he just raped a transgender person”, underlines the general advocate in her indictment.
Jean-Paul Isaki is being prosecuted in another case, very close to the facts for which he is being tried before the Marne Assize Court since he was indicted in 2017 in Evry for attempted murder aggravated by the circumstance of having been committed due to the gender identity of the victim, in this case of having stabbed a transgender person with whom he had just had sexual intercourse. The accused has still not been tried in this second case but the precedent carries weight. Especially since the accused did not undertake any psychological or psychiatric work during his three and a half years of pre-trial detention, even refusing certain expert opinions.
“Today Jean-Paul Isaki is a dangerous man because there is a real risk of reoffending”insisted the General Advocate this Wednesday, December 4. She requested 30 years of criminal imprisonment with a security sentence of 20 years and socio-judicial monitoring of 10 years.
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