Samire Lymani was found guilty of the murder of his partner Aurélie Vaquier. He received thirty years of criminal imprisonment.
Samire Lymani, a 41-year-old man, was sentenced Tuesday in Montpellier to 30 years of criminal imprisonment for having killed his partner Aurélie Vaquier, found buried in April 2021 under a concrete slab at the couple’s home in Hérault.
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Death of Aurélie Vaquier: tried for having strangled then walled up his partner, will Samire Lymani reveal his truth? We summarize the matter for you
After 4 hours of deliberation, the jury recognized this ex-soldier and truck driver, who fiercely denied the facts, “guilty” of the murder of Aurélie Vaquier, and sentenced him in accordance with the attorney general’s indictment. When the verdict was announced, Samire Lymani shouted from the defendant’s box “I am innocent! Justice! Justice!”, before being evacuated.
“Lies, lies, lies”
Tried since January 9 for “murder by partner”, the former soldier and truck driver, divorced father of two children, risked life imprisonment, the maximum provided for by French law. But such a sentence “is to be reserved for serial criminals, which Samire Lymani is not”, explained the representative of the public prosecutor, before the floor was given to the defense for its pleading.
For the rest, the attorney general was implacable, recalling in the preamble these “evidences”, the first of which is that Aurélie Vaquier, 38 years old, “did not commit suicide and that she did not die of an accident”, but that she “died a violent death”. Damien Kincher then mentioned the “absurd hypothesis” according to which a stranger would have killed the young woman at her home then buried her by pouring a concrete slab, hidden under a wooden podium at the couple’s own home, as the The accused supports him by explaining that the facts occurred when he was away for a few days with his family. “Lies, lies, lies… this stranger is you, Samire Lymani,” launched the attorney general.