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Three bullets without a word: a former police officer tried in Nîmes for the assassination of his former companion

2020-10-05T08:56:43.276Z


Jean-Régis J., who allegedly killed his ex-wife in front of their two-year-old son, faces life imprisonment.


Three bullets in the head without a word and under the eyes of his son: a 39-year-old former police officer appears before the Nîmes Assize Court from Monday, October 5 to Thursday, October 8 for the assassination in Alès (Gard) of Carine, his ex-partner.

The accused is liable to life imprisonment.

On February 27, 2016, Jean-Régis J. came to the Alès police station accompanied by his two-year-old son, claiming to have killed his ex-partner with his service weapon.

Police at the time of the facts, the man would have acted in front of the eyes of the little boy after having threatened the young educator for months, according to the investigators.

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On a roundabout near a shopping center in Alès, the police find the lifeless body of Carine, 24, lying on the seat of her vehicle, the window of which is broken.

According to the autopsy, the young mother died of three bullets fired in the head at close range.

A motorist who was behind the victim's car explained that she saw a vehicle overtake the whole line and then block that of the young woman.

According to this witness, a man then got out and then immediately shot at the driver's window without a word being said.

The gunman then returned to the vehicle to extract a child in the back.

In Carine's car, investigators find a receipt for filing a complaint against Jean-Régis J. dated February 19, a little over a week before the murder, for malicious phone calls.

After having confessed, according to several people around her, to being afraid for her life, the young woman had taken out, a month before being shot, a “family protection” provident contract.

"Lifetime burden"

According to the investigation, Carine would have been the victim of multiple violence on the part of her ex-companion, especially since their break-up in October 2014. Jean-Régis J. thus came to his ex-companion's home at any time, followed her , including at her workplace, and was particularly threatening if he found out that she had a new mate.

The police officer had called Carine nearly 1,700 times in the two months before her death, investigators said.

The accused disputes this violence and also denies any premeditation of his act, arguing that, on the day of the facts, he ran into Carine by chance before taking action suddenly

"out of anger"

because he had

"Not supported" that

she has a new man in her life.

Premeditation should be at the heart of the debate.

The two defense lawyers, Me Clémence Cottineau and Me Jérémie Dilmi, told AFP that they would contest it, as did the existence of previous threats and harassment against Carine.

"Beyond that, we want our client to be judged objectively for the facts with which he is accused and not for a phenomenon - feminicide - which has no legal existence"

, underlined Me Cottineau.

On the side of the civil parties, according to his lawyer, the son of the couple, born in August 2013 and entrusted to his maternal aunt,

"has a very precise memory of the facts despite having been very young"

.

"He will carry this burden for life"

, underlines Me Sylvia Ginane, estimating that the deprivation of the parental rights of the accused would be

"the best thing that could happen"

to the child.

A debate which is

"irrelevant"

before the Assize Court and falls under the jurisdiction of the children's judge, according to Me Cottineau, who ensures that his client is not

"in the claim"

concerning his son, now seven years old .

Source: lefigaro

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