Accused sentenced to 22 years in prison

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On Friday, September 20, 2024, Cédric Patte was sentenced to 22 years in prison in the trial of double murder committed to Eu, in Seine-Maritimein 2019, as indicated by our colleagues at France 3 Normandie.

The trial opened on Tuesday, September 17, before the Assize Court from Rouen.

He kills two people

On the night of Monday 4 to Tuesday 5 February 2019, around 1 a.m., the accused, living in the Sumwent to the home of his ex-partner, Caroline Noureux.

She had been living for several weeks with her new partner, Christophe Granger, on rue du Bois de la Couronne, a residential area from Eu.

Cédric Patte was armed with a hunting rifle and fired twice at point-blank range, killing his former partner and her partner.

At a press conference in 2019, the prosecutor indicated that during the investigation, “his version is that the two victims died by an accidental act, while he had a weapon in his hands and wanted to kill himself at the home of his partner from whom he was separated.”

According to our colleagues at Paris Normandie, the public prosecutor had requested a sentence of 25 years of criminal imprisonment.

The Assize Court did not believe the accident theory. It found the accused guilty of having deliberately killed the two victims, but did not retain premeditation.

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