The 48-year-old mother, who was on the run with her daughter for eleven years, was sentenced for subtraction and non-presentation of a child by the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal.
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Priscilla Majani remains in prison. Wednesday, January 4, the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal confirmed the guilt of this 48-year-old mother for subtraction and non-presentation of a child, pronounced on November 23 by the Criminal Court of Toulon, and the sentenced to two years and nine months in prison. As a complementary penalty, the Court pronounced a ban on leaving the national territory for three years, as well as the deprivation of its civil, civil, and family rights over the same period.
In compensation for moral damage, M Me Majani is ordered to pay 30,000 euros to Alain Chauvet, his ex-chopper and father of their daughter. Unlike the court, the Court of Appeal did not retain the offense of false denunciation against the defendant, who, in 2011, accused the father of the child of rape and sexual assault. It was therefore relaxed of this chief.
In its judgment rendered January 4, the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal considers that “Priscilla Majani has placed itself in omnipotence, arranging the right to dispose of the life of the ‘Child of the couple in total contempt for the father’s rights, and even though the child had, at the time of denunciation, no emotional disturbance in his relationship with his father “.
M Me Majani, military engineer, had left the Var overnight with his five-year-old daughter in 2011, after having accused his ex-spouse Alain Chauvet of rape and sexual assault on the child. The complaint had been classified without follow-up, after a gynecological examination which noted any anal or genital lesion and a psychological expertise concluding in the absence of mental suffering or sexual or phobic disorder.
After eleven years of Cavale, Priscilla Majani, had been arrested in February 2022 in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, during a simple road control. She had settled in Switzerland under a false identity with her daughter after staying in different countries. Extraced in France in August 2022, she was placed in pre -trial detention, before being tried in Toulon, September 16.
The teenager filed a complaint against her father
At first instance as on appeal, M Majani had presented herself as a protective mother, having sought to save her daughter of her violent father: “Leaving with my daughter is the More beautiful thing I have done in my life, “she said. The court had sentenced her to five years in prison, a sentence she had immediately called.
In its judgment, the Court observes that the consequences of this run are “dramatic” for the child, who was “first suddenly uprooted his emotional and geographic environment, was then raised without his father, What could have generated deficiencies in its construction, grew up in hiding, therefore in an insecure setting, under a false identity, and in the fear of this man, which had to be an important source of anxiety for her ” .
Today, the 17 -year -old, the girl lives in a host family and her tutelage was entrusted to a child protection service in Switzerland. Five days before the appearance of her mother on appeal, the teenager had filed a complaint against her father for sexual, physical and mental violence. The defendant’s lawyers also had a video in which she reiterated her accusations against her father and praised her mother. But for the court, this testimony “allows you to apprehend a part of the damage caused to this young girl”.
“The conditions under which Priscilla Majani was arrested, on arrest warrant, because she had fled so as not to have to respect court decisions, and her speech still at the court hearing, testify of the total absence of questioning of the accused, obviously ready to leave the territory again to escape his responsibilities vis-à-vis justice and his sanction. “
So many elements which, for appeal judges, make “essential” the pronouncement of a prison sentence, “any other sanction being manifestly inadequate.” Many personalities, including Eva Darlan, and anonymous hoped for his release, by demonstrating their support for Priscilla Majani under a collective watchword: “I would have done like her”. An online petition counted on Wednesday January 4, more than 12,000 signatures.