The 14 year old girl had been beaten then thrown into the Seine in March 2021 by two college comrades. His death had raised a wave of national emotion.
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Ten years in prison. Thursday, April 7, a boy and a 16-year-old girl were sentenced for the murder of Alisha, found beaten and drowned in the Seine in March 2021. She was 14 years old.
After four days of closed doors, the Children’s Court of Pontoise (Val-d’Oise) did not accept premeditation. Considering “that it did not appear to be sufficiently characterized” proving “preparatory acts”, the Tribunal requalified the facts of “assassination” in “murder on minor 15 years”.
Between the youth involved, the online dissemination of intimate images of the victim and the ultraviolence of the murder, the death of Alisha had raised a wave of national emotion. More than two thousand people had gathered in a white walk to his memory, where many parents shared their concerns about the extent of school harassment, accentuated by social networks. In the wake, the government announced the creation of a “parents’ committee against harassment”.
One year later, the trial took place protected from the external looks, given the age of the defendants. “Forbidden for the parties to the trial of evoking what told about it. It was the law,” said Frank Berton, the teenager lawyer sentenced on Twitter on Monday. In March 2021, the prosecutor of the Republic of Pontoise, Eric Corbaux, had, however, unveiled the investigative elements that had resulted in the indicning of the young couple, then 15 years old.
“Friends at the beginning “
The day of his death, Monday, March 8, 2021, Alisha had found a comrade from his college at the Argenteuil station, early afternoon. The two daughters had headed to the Saint-Denis platform, where they used to come to the shadow of the A15 motorway viaduct. Hidden behind a pillar, the boy struggled abruptly from Alisha, to hit her by surprise in the face before pulling her hair and send it to the ground, continuing to hit her. Always conscious, Alisha “moaned open eyes,” said the prosecutor. The couple then caught up to throw it in the Seine since the wharf. The teenager had taken care to put on the gloves of his girlfriend before attacking Alisha, “not to leave traces”, depending on the Pontoise floor.
The duo runs down the boy, who speaks to his mother. It runs on the scene of the murder, there is a glove, with a wick of hair. On his return, his son and his girlfriend having disappeared, she calls the police. Teenagers, they left eating in front of Paris before finishing the evening at a friend in Argenteuil, where they are arrested at 2 o’clock in the morning.
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