The jurors of the Assize Court of the Alpes-Maritimes have decided. And they decided on the maximum sentence. Amin Mimouni, the companion of Salomé Garnesson, whose body bruised by the beatings had been found under a pile of rubbish, on August 31, 2019 in Cagnes-sur-Mer, was sentenced this Thursday in Nice to life imprisonment with a security period of 22 years.
This 29-year-old man had acknowledged the facts lip service Monday at the opening of his trial after having always denied them despite overwhelming evidence. He never “expressed any empathy for the victim,” said the Advocate General, requesting the same sentence on Wednesday. Amin Mimouni, found guilty of murder by spouse, also receives a period of ineligibility for a period of ten years and a ban on possessing or carrying a weapon for fifteen years.
According to the testimonies, the young woman had just told him that she was leaving him. “He killed her because he saw that she was free again, because he was losing control over her”, also underlined the representative of the public prosecutor’s office Fabien Cézanne, considering that there was a risk of recidivism. . “If it does not present a dangerousness at the psychiatric level, it is indeed the case in the criminological and social sense”, he argued. During the proceedings, the various witnesses, relatives of Salomé, but also a former girlfriend of the accused, had described the mechanism of “grip” in which this “narcissistic” man, according to the experts, locked up his companions.
Police intervention criticized
“She was very intelligent, very cultured. I enjoyed chatting with her. But she began to see us less, to wear loose clothes, which covered her body, notably told the mother of the young woman, found dead at the age of 21. She also stopped her studies, then she quit her job. »
On the night of August 30 to 31, 2019, witnesses called the police after hearing screams in the street alongside their home, and seeing “a young man massacring a girl. “The intervention of the police, slowed down by the “unprofessional behavior” of an agent of the 17-police relief, had given him to an investigation by the IGPN at the end of which this policeman had received a blame. The body of the young woman had not been found until the next day, by a neighbor, near the Cagnes-sur-Mer station, where Amin Mimoumi had “dragged” the body. Under a pile of garbage.
The death of Salomé Garnesson, considered the 100th feminicide of the year 2019 in France, had aroused a national wave of emotion and indignation. His death occurred a few days before the opening of a Grenelle domestic violence forum.