Nathalie Jacquet and her husband are angry with their daughter’s alleged murderer, her former boyfriend, whose trial opened this Monday behind closed doors before the Mâcon children’s court. The two young people had separated a few days before Emma’s death, but they continued to see each other at night in secret. According to his mother, she didn’t want to let him down. “She thought he was suffering and she actually wanted to help him. Emma, on the other hand, had a lot of empathy,” she says. The teenager quickly admitted that, during a nighttime meeting, he had worn “three blows to the neck” with a knife hidden until then “in his sleeve”then explained the Mâcon prosecutor, Eric Jallet.
Was this then premeditated? According to his friends, he had in the past talked about wanting to kill someone. Emma’s parents are convinced, their daughter has fallen into a trap. The latter were not aware of his nocturnal outings. The evening of the tragedy, they did not hear him. “He had been luring her outside to take her out for several evenings to prepare for his attack”assures Pascal Jacquet.