The lawyers of Essia Boularès, which causes a fire having killed ten people in 2019, pleaded against “dehumanizing requisitions” and “an elimination sentence”. The verdict is expected on Thursday.
by Henri Seckel
By comparing in his first words the horror of the fire on rue Erlanger (Paris 16
Forty-five minutes later, after a flash indictment on Wednesday, February 22, the Advocate General demanded from the jurors and the magistrates of the Paris Assize Court a sentence of twenty-seven years in prison, Assorted by a safe period of two-thirds and fifteen years of sociojudicial follow-up with obligation of care against Essia Boularès, 44, including four already passed in pre-trial detention.
In the eyes of the representative of society, the “extremely complex personality” of the accused and his thirty-four passages in a psychiatric hospital, the last a few days before the fatal fire on the night of February 4 to 5, 2019 , are anecdotal in the face of the severity of the drama, the ten dead, the dozens of traumatized wounded, and at the risk of recurrence. 2> a “voluntary, avenging and disproportionate action”
This “extremely complex personality” did not interest much the Advocate General, who quickly went on it and completely recovered to the conclusions of psychiatrists, who considered that the discernment of Essia Boularès was ” altered “at the time of the facts – which allows jurors to pronounce a slightly reduced sentence – but judged him responsible for his acts and accessible to a criminal sanction.
“No delusional attitude”, “no hallucination”, “no impulsive gesture” when set fire to the door of his neighbor’s neighbor who reproached him for putting the music too loud and had come Tap violently at his door, but a “voluntary, avenging and disproportionate action”, an act of “uncontrolled anger exacerbated by his alcoholism”, according to the representative of the accusation. To heavily condemn Essia Boularès, he explained, “it is not required that she was aware of creating a real danger”. She did not want to kill, she did not imagine causing such damage, of course. “But she took the risk.”
Opposite, under the gathered eye of dozens of former neighbors of 17 bis, rue Erlanger massed on the benches of the public, Léa Hufnagel and Sébastien Schapira pleaded against “dehumanizing requisitions” and an “penalty of elimination elimination “:” I think that part of the room wants it to die in prison, and the requisitions that have been offered to you are this project, “launched the second.
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