“Justice has been done, the memory of Amandine remains very present, I am extremely tired, emptied. These are really very difficult moments“, Said at the end of the Frédéric Flores trial, the father of Amandine.
After five days of trial and two and a half hours of deliberation, the three professional magistrates and the six popular jurors drawn (five women and a man) also condemned his ex-companion, Jean-Michel Cros, at 20 years old Criminal imprisonment, for having deprived his daughter-in-law of care until his death.
For Sandrine Pissarra, 54, found guilty of violence and acts of torture and barbarism, the verdict complies with the Advocate General’s indictment, Jean-Marie Beney, who had estimated that for this mother of eight children, “Domestic tyrant, interiors’ dictator, amandine executioner“, There were no other possible penalties. The representative of the public prosecutor had, on the other hand, claimed a slightly lower sentence -18 years’ imprisonment-against Jean-Michel Cros, 49,” loose collaborator ” of the “Pissarra system”.
On August 6, 2020, day of his death of cardiac arrest and sepsis, at the family home of Montblanc, near Béziers (southwest), the middle school college, locked up for weeks in a window and private storage food weighed only 28 kg for 1.55 m. “”I want to apologize to my children, that’s all“Said Ms. Pissarra in the early afternoon, invited to speak one last time.”I have nothing to add“, was content to answer Mr. Cros.
“Torture blanche”
“For five days, you have entered horror, the unthinkable, the inexpressible … (…) you have entered the Pissarra system, into the family dictatorship, an unimaginable world, implemented for more than 15 years. You have discovered that, from a very young age, Amandine has been punching, kicking, boosting, pulling hair, repeated cries, insults, jostles“, had stated the Advocate General in his indictment.”Then, as in any dictatorial system, the victim’s personality should be destroyed, to reduce it to what you want. There are violence, the lines to be copied, the endless sermons“.
-There is also also a collective responsibility
“Then we go to white torture: isolation, which aims to reduce the spatial and temporal perception of an individual. White torture, combined with a little physical torture, kneeling on the roller, and even worse, the nudity obliged to a 13 -year -old teenager“, Detailed the magistrate.”The bug is the death of Amandine, it was not planned. But as it is out of the question that it is found at the bottom, in its cugibi, it is rising on the second floor, where there is the shower. As she is not yet dead, but that it is imminent, we will feed her a little, wash it, dress it, we will -start that she has scratched for days and days, to the point that the septicemia settled-put a kind of ointment to him to try to think that we had nevertheless treated it“.
“A fair, reasonable sentence”
“And then, the nail professional (Mrs. Pissarra, editor’s note) will think of something that has marked everyone, we’re going to make her nails“, Even explained Mr. Beney. The system,”We could have weakened it, to make it fall, before it took full power“, pleaded one of the lawyers of Sandrine Pissarra, Me Louis Dolez, in allusion to adults (ex-spouses, friends, neighbors, doctors, social workers, teachers or magistrates) who crossed the road to Amandine without taking the measurement of his suffering or act effectively to end it.
If there is one “individual responsibility” incontestable, “There is also also a collective responsibility“, had also pointed out Me Jean-Marc Darrigade, his other lawyer, asking for a”Singaire just, reasonable“, which would have allowed him to”come back“Without being”an old lady“.
“Once out of Ms. Pissarra’s subjection, is Jean-Michel Cros a dangerous man? The answer is no. So hold out your hand“, had pleaded for his part Me Grégoire Mercier, for the ex-companion of Mrs. Pissarra. Arguments that the court therefore did not follow.
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