The teenager who suffered several years of abuse only weighed 28 kilos when she died in 2020.
The prosecution on Friday requested life imprisonment with a security period of 20 years against Sandrine Pissarra, this mother tried before the Hérault assizes for acts of «torture» and of “barbarism” for starving his 13-year-old daughter Amandine to death.
In his indictment, the Attorney General, Jean-Marie Beney, also demanded a sentence of 18 years’ imprisonment against Sandrine Pissarra’s former companion, Jean-Michel Cros, considering him guilty of having “deprived of care or food” his daughter-in-law, who weighed only 28 kg when she died on August 6, 2020.
Against Sandrine Pissarra, 54 years old, “instigator of the ‘Pissara system’, number one executor of the ‘Pissarra system’, domestic tyrant, interior dictator, executioner of Amandine, there is only one sentence: life imprisonment accompanied by a period 20-year securitysaid the Attorney General, Jean-Marie Beney, at the conclusion of an indictment lasting less than an hour.
On August 6, 2020, the day of her death from cardiac arrest and septicemia, at the family home in Montblanc (Hérault), near Béziers, the schoolgirl, locked up for weeks in a windowless storage room and deprived of food, weighs only 28 kg for 1.55 m.
The verdict of this trial, opened Monday in Montpellier, is expected Friday during the day, after the defense pleadings.
-“For five days, you have penetrated into the horror, the unthinkable, the unspeakable… Except that there are words to say, in legal terms, the sanction of the unspeakable”the Attorney General explained to the jurors, at the opening of his indictment.
«Torture blanche» et “collaborators”
“You have penetrated into the ‘Pissara system’, into the family dictatorship, an unimaginable world, in place for more than 15 years. You have discovered that, since she was very young, Amandine has been the victim of blows, punches, kicks, brooms, hair pulling, repeated shouting, insults, shoving.he continued.
“Then, as in any dictatorial system, it is appropriate to destroy the personality of the victim, to reduce them to what we want. There is the violence, the lines to be copied, the endless sermons. Then we move on to something else, to white torture: solitary confinement, which aims to reduce an individual’s spatial and temporal perception. White torture, combined with a little physical torture, kneeling on the roller, and worse still, forced nudity on a 13 year old girl.detailed the magistrate.
“The problem is Amandine’s death. It wasn’t planned. As it is of course out of the question that we find her downstairs, in her storage room. So, we take her to the second floor, where there is the shower. So, since she’s not dead yet, but it’s imminent, we’re going to feed her a little, wash her, dress her, we’re going to – because she’s been scratching for days and days, to the point that sepsis set in – putting a kind of ointment on her to try to make people think that she had been treated after all. And then, the nail professional (Ms. Pissarra, editor’s note), will think of something that has left an impression on everyone, we will do her nails”Mr. Beney further explained. “To the question of acts of barbarity and torture, you will answer yes, without hesitation”he concluded, calling for the maximum sentence.
Regarding Jean-Michel Cros, who risked 30 years of imprisonment, the attorney general underlined: “As in any dictatorial system, there are collaborators, and I see one in the box, whose attitude consists of seeing nothing, hearing nothing, saying nothing, his hands tied behind his back and his feet in a block of concrete that we poured ourselves. You will answer yes to the question concerning the deprivation of care accused of Mr. Cros”, Mr. Beney told the court, demanding 18 years of imprisonment against him.
