The two former classmates of the girl, struck and then thrown into the Seine in 2021, were again recognized on Monday by the Yvelines Court of Appeal.
Le Monde with AFP
Two teenagers were again deemed guilty of the death of their classmate, Alisha, 14. The Yvelines Court of Appeal sentenced a boy from 17 years to thirteen years in prison on Monday October 10 for assassination and a girl from 16 to ten years in prison for the murder of the middle school, struck then thrown into the Seine in Argenteuil , in 2021.
After a closed trial, the House of Minors of the Court of Appeal made a decision in public which distinguishes the role played by the two adolescents. The young man was found guilty of assassination by virtue of “premeditation” due to “preparatory elements”, the young woman of murder by her active assistance in the death of Alisha on the day of the drama, who was Tied under the pillars of a motorway viaduct 15 (A15) on March 8, 2021. The two had been sentenced to ten years in prison at first instance, in April.
long harassment
“You both approached a beginning of reflection on the facts you have committed,” said the president of the Court of Appeal to the two young people, inviting them to “continue this work” to “get out of the ‘Adolescence and become adults with a place in society “. “This will ask you for efforts, but you are capable of it,” she said.
The Court of Appeal also mentioned “the courage and dignity” of Alisha’s family during the trial. “Alisha, she won today, we won, we all won, but I wanted justice for Alisha,” said her mother at the end of the hearing, surrounded by her husband, a of their sons and many supporters.
His daughter, in third class, had fallen into the trap of the two teenagers, whose mobile seems reduced to futile considerations, between lovetures and jealousies. The boy had struck her by surprise, violently, then the two young people had thrown her, still aware, in the river, where she drowned. This tragic epilogue had come to conclude the harassment suffered by this young girl without history.