The trial begins for the femicide that shocked France and dropped at the fore the authorities' failure to guard ladies from gender-based violence
A 26-year-old man, accused of killing his associate in entrance of their youngster – in a case that may be described as femicide – has been on trial since December 10 in France.
It’s a heinous crime that has sparked public debate concerning the position of justice and the police.
The femicide of Stephanie de Vincennes
“I settle for the cost of homicide they’re accusing me of, I can not deny the information as a result of there are movies,” stated the defendant, Liridon Berisha, who was born in Kosovo, confessing to the homicide of his associate in 2021.
“After I was first imprisoned, I didn't consider it. I got here to just accept over time what I used to be doing. I do know I didn't do something small, that I could have shocked individuals, however I'm not a bastard,” stated the defendant, who’s going through life in jail.
Serge Ebel, a psychologist, famous that the defendant has a “low tolerance for frustration” and a “tendency for poisonous substances which will exacerbate his moody traits.”
An outline that Berisha didn’t like. “This gentleman is making an attempt to painting me as a sick individual, I'm not a psychopath, I'm a father! If this isn’t observed, I take my issues and go away you” he threatened.
This femicide triggered a shock as Liridon Berisha murdered his associate Stephanie Di Vincenzo in entrance of their 3-year-old daughter.
However that wasn't the one shocker.
He, the day earlier than the homicide, had taken off the digital bracelet he was sporting, with out elevating any alarm to the authorities.
The timeline of the homicide
On the evening of Might 23-24, 2021, a giant struggle breaks out between the accused and the sufferer at their dwelling in Haiyang, a former industrial metropolis.
22-year-old Stephanie di Vincenzo manages to flee by the window, weakened and coated in blood.
Witnesses see her operating in the direction of the police station, which is 40 meters from her dwelling. However, it's closed.
The defendant catches up together with her on the road.
He stabs her a number of occasions, in entrance of the neighbors and their daughter.
He then throws his knife, 25 cm lengthy, right into a bin and runs away.
The harbingers of homicide and the inadequacy of the authorities
Between January 2018 and November 2020, police had been referred to as to the couple's dwelling ten occasions.
Stephanie needed to depart her associate, who witnesses described as “extraordinarily violent, alcoholic and jealous”.
He had filed a lawsuit towards him in November 2020, however the prosecution was by no means knowledgeable concerning the lawsuit.
The prosecutor, Christian Mercuri, denied, the day after the tragedy, any “dysfunction of the judicial providers”.
However he acknowledged that “in a super world”, complaints filed by the sufferer towards her abusive associate ought to have been referred to the prosecution.
An investigation by numerous ministries discovered “no inadequacies” within the selections made earlier than the killing.
“The customarily disturbing conduct of this couple, the fixed arguments, which had been generally instantly adopted by reconciliations, might result in a downgrading of this case by the police providers,” he wrote.
Nevertheless, the perpetrator himself reminded the courtroom that he had kidnapped his first associate and “threatened to burn her or drive her into prostitution”, whereas she was solely 17 years outdated.
The bracelet
A political refugee, the defendant had been sentenced to at least one yr in jail for visitors violations.
He had benefited from a diminished sentence and had been fitted with an digital bracelet simply days earlier than the occasions.
A bracelet he eliminated on the eve of the homicide.
In line with the investigation, the wristband had suffered “an unexplained malfunction” to such an extent that when he took it off, it didn’t increase “any alarm on the monitoring middle”.
The decision is anticipated on Friday.
Supply: in.gr
