The Aude Assize Court on Friday, September 4 sentenced Maurice Patrac to 27 years of criminal imprisonment for the murder in July 2017 of his partner Natacha, to whom he subjected "
endless agony
" after years of sway and “
domestic hell
”.
The general counsel, Florence Galtier, had requested life imprisonment against this 38-year-old father, "a
real danger to society
".
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His nephew Steven Patrac, tried for "
voluntary abstention from preventing a crime
", was sentenced to four years' imprisonment, two of which were suspended but without a committal warrant.
Sentences deemed "
satisfactory
" by one of the lawyers for the civil parties, Me Franck Alberti, for whom "
the most important thing was to recognize the guilt of the two accused
".
Maurice Patrac's lawyer, Me David Lanes had pleaded for the reclassification of the murder as "
manslaughter
" and Steven's lawyer, Me Victor Font, had asked for an acquittal.
The lawyer for Collectif 11 for the defense of women's rights, who had become a civil party, Me Aude Denarneau, considers that it is "
important
" that associations such as the Collectif continue this process, to "
go in the direction of this real societal issue of feminicides
”.
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