“It is not a murderous madness, it is not a delirium, it is an act prepared, calculated, premeditated”. Thursday, Charlotte Millon, the general counsel of the Rhône Assize Court, requested thirty years of criminal imprisonment against Jamila El Rhoufi. This 41-year-old mother has been on trial since Tuesday for the double murder of her daughters.
On Wednesday, the accused who claimed her innocence, ended up confessing to having killed Alya and Lyna, in June 2018 in the barracks of Limonest (Rhône), where she resided. With a nod, she conceded that she smothered them with a pillow. Without giving up too much, the mother of the family, described as “possessive” and “exclusive”, explained that she wanted “to keep them”, specifying that she was afraid that another woman would take them, after discovering the intention of her. husband to divorce.
“Society cannot accept that we take the lives of our own children”
“No psychic cause can excuse and explain this passage to the act” although “no sane mother kills children,” said the general counsel, asking the jurors to attach a sentence to their sentence. two-thirds security penalty.
Detailing the timeline of the fatal weekend, Charlotte Million took up the conclusions of an expert to describe a “logic of rupture and radical cancellation”, which consisted in suppressing her children to erase her failure and deprived her husband of descent .
“The company cannot accept that one takes the life out of revenge, that one takes the life of its own children”, she justified by also calling for a socio-judicial follow-up of fifteen years, with injunction of care , prohibition to come into contact with the family of her ex-husband, and prohibition to exercise a profession in relation to minors. And to conclude: “She lies all the time, she manipulates, she accuses, she poses as a victim as she has done all her life. The verdict is expected at the end of the day.