Heads lower. Some tighten up. In the small courtroom in Créteil (Val-de-Marne), dozens of people remained silent when the verdict was announced. The emotion shines through. At the end of four days of trial, this Friday in the middle of the afternoon, Véronique’s former companion was sentenced to twenty-five years of criminal imprisonment. On April 19, 2022, he killed this mother of two children in a wave of violence in the stairwell of her apartment in Maisons-Alfort.
This sentence is accompanied by a two-thirds security with obligation of care upon his release from prison, risking five years of imprisonment in the event of failure to fulfill this obligation. “It is an imperative,” declared the attorney general during requisitions at the end of the morning. You have the need to prevent any action. » They were also followed by the court.
This murder is “the culmination of a climate of possessiveness and jealousy”
This man faced life imprisonment for this aggravated murder. “But the alteration of discernment was retained”, specified the president during the verdict, recalling that this murder is: “the culmination of a climate of possessiveness and jealousy”.
This father, described as “asocial”, always reproduced the same pattern when separating from his partners. The previous breakup, with his daughter’s mother, had plunged him into a deep depression.
His meeting with Véronique had helped him get back on track without filling in certain gaping flaws, linked to a chaotic childhood, marked by violence. The attorney general had also described a relationship under the sign of “control, surveillance”, exercised over Véronique. After months of back and forth, the man understands that the last separation is intended to be definitive for Véronique. It’s the end of March, beginning of April.
-Véronique feels spied on, stalked all the way to her home. The anonymous calls made by his ex keep coming. Relatives are worried and ask him to go to the police station. “She was too nice and refused to file a complaint so as not to cause complications for her former partner with the custody of her daughter,” summarized a relative during the hearing.
On the day of the incident, he stopped a few dozen meters from the stairwell and stared at it. He waits for Véronique to return from work to attack her with a large kitchen knife. “He left the victim no chance,” noted the attorney general during her submissions, recalling the conclusions of the forensic doctor on “damage to all organs”.
“No beginning of introspection on your part”
The victim feared this outburst of violence and had told relatives that she feared being stabbed in the back in her stairwell. Her two sons, present in the apartment, found her dying in front of the home. “She had confided in two people,” added the State representative before estimating that “this type of personality is the blind spot of protection”.
“There was no beginning of introspection on your part,” the president also lamented when the verdict was announced, before “recalling its dangerousness.” The psychiatric expert particularly insisted on this point during his hearing. “Faced with an identical situation, he will react in the same way,” insisted the attorney general, asking the jurors to take this into account.
