The Oise Minors Assize Court sentenced Shaïna’s ex-boyfriend to 18 years’ imprisonment for the murder of this teenager, stabbed and burned alive at the age of 15 in 2019 in Creil, probably pregnant with him. ” For what ? For what ? », reacted the accused, pale complexion, emerging beard and dark eyes, to the statement of the verdict, on the night of Friday June 9 to Saturday June 10, after four hours of deliberation. Then : ” You are wrong ! I am innocent ! »
“18 years! This is justice in France! » for his part launched Shaïna’s brother, Yasin, in tears. After tense discussions with the accused, he felt unwell, leading to a suspension of the hearing. He was taken to the hospital. With Agence France-Presse (AFP), Shaïna’s father said to himself “disappointed with justice”. “Justice does not care about violence against women”estimated Me Negar Haeri, family lawyer. Between pre-trial detention and remissions, the accused “out in eight years”she said.
This sentence, pronounced in a heavy atmosphere, is lower than the requisitions of the Advocate General, Loïc Abrial, who had claimed 30 years of criminal imprisonment for a crime according to him “premeditated at every stage”. Mr. Abrial had requested the lifting of the excuse of minority of the accused, aged 17 at the time of the facts, which allows the maximum sentence to be increased from 20 to 30 years. But this was not upheld by the court.
The defendant’s lawyer, Mr.e Elise Arfi, had described, after the requisitions, a man “petrified, terrified”faced with the request for a sentence “longer than his whole life”. His second counsel, Mr.e Adel Fares, had “pleaded acquittal”. Throughout the closed trial, which opened on Monday, the young man, a high school student with no criminal record at the time of the events, cried out his innocence. “I just want to be quiet”, he launched to the jurors at the time of his last words, according to the general counsel. According to the civil parties, the psychiatric expert pointed out Thursday the lack of empathy and the narcissism of the young man, a portrait challenged by the defense.
Treated “like a thing”
Shaïna, who died at 15, had been the victim two years earlier in her city of sexual assault, the images of which had been broadcast online, exposing her, according to Me Haeri, to be treated “like a thing”. Four other young men were sentenced on 1er June on appeal for these facts to sentences ranging from six months to two years in prison suspended.
According to the investigation, Shaïna, described by her mother as “funny and smiling”, was probably getting pregnant, which she attributed to the accused. The latter may have been moved, according to the civil parties, by the fear of losing the love of his parents if he broke with their demands for perfection, against a background of religious prohibition around sexuality. “He was ready to destroy everything to save his image”ruled the Advocate General on Friday. “There is no link to be made between faith” of the accused and the crime judged, on the contrary swept away Me Adel Fares.
Shaïna’s parents revolted, in court, against the reputation inflicted on their daughter and the portrait sketched by certain witnesses. In two years, Shaïna “experienced all gender violence”pointed Friday Me Zoé Royaux, spokesperson for the Women’s Foundation, civil party. In France, according to official figures, a woman dies every three days from the violence of her spouse or ex-spouse.
The hearings were marked by the reversal or absence of certain prosecution witnesses. A friend of the accused said he no longer remembered seeing blood on his clothes the day after the incident. Two ex-convicts, according to whom the young man would have boasted of having killed so as not to endorse the paternity of a ” bastard “did not show up.
Not enough to weaken the file, for Me Haeri, for whom the guilt of the accused rests on elements “great goals”. His laptop and that of Shaïna have notably ” thick headed “ shortly before the events near the crime shed, and burns on the young man’s legs were confirmed by a medical expert.