The father of the accused also killed his stepfather in 2010. A tragedy which would have marked the young man “with a hot iron”, according to his lawyer.
The Haute-Savoie Assize Court on Friday sentenced a young man whose father had already been convicted of a similar crime 11 years earlier to 20 years of criminal imprisonment for the murder of his stepfather. The accused, aged 22, was convicted of killing his father-in-law, a 64-year-old farmer, in January 2021 with a firearm on a farm in Pringy, near Annecy, where he was learning. He had also injured his mother-in-law and her partner.
The Annecy court accepted premeditation and considered that his discernment had been impaired at the time of the act. He was also convicted of aggravated willful violence against his mother-in-law and his ex-partner.
The civil parties “relieved”
A notable element of the case, this judgment comes after the conviction, by the same court in 2012, of the young man’s father to 10 years of criminal imprisonment, for having fatally shot his own father-in-law two years earlier. “The consequences of this dramatic event will be such as to definitively and indelibly brand this kid.», pleaded during the hearing the young man’s lawyer, Me Rimondi, emphasizing that his client was 8 years old at the time of the crime committed by his father. He considered that “the jurors were sensitive to this period of life that he lived in extremely traumatic conditions», recalling that his client faced life imprisonment and that the attorney general had requested 22 years of imprisonment.
The 20-year prison sentence was accompanied by an injunction for treatment and a ban on entering into contact with the civil parties. The latter said to themselves “relieved» of the verdict, especially the removal measures, reacted their lawyer Jean-François Jullien, describing the sentence as “perfectly fair».
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