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Valenton: "I wanted her to look only at me", declares the alleged murderer of Aïssatou

2020-10-30T20:44:54.817Z


Gianni D. was heard this Friday before the Assize Court of Val-de-Marne, four years to the day after the death of the young woman who


“You didn't just kill Aïssatou.

»With his index finger pointing towards the box and his gaze straight, Aïssatou's father-in-law addresses Gianni D. Head down, the young man of 21 shakes his head from left to right but does not look at him.

He faces life imprisonment for “murder” against his ex-girlfriend on September 18, 2016 in Valenton (Val-de-Marne).

The verdict is expected Monday.

The facts took place on the third floor of her building where Gianni D. was waiting for her when she had just spent an evening with friends.

"I hit her because I'm jealous," he explains spontaneously on September 18 when the police come to arrest him.

He was "14 or 15" when he came to Aïssatou's mother for the first time.

"He was young, he was calm," said at the helm this woman, who wears her daughter's face even on her mask.

She explains having learned on the first day of the trial what Aïssatou did not tell her: the violence and death threats received by her boyfriend, then ex-boyfriend.

“She told me they were separated,” she recalls.

But Gianni D. was obviously not out of his life, if we are to believe the many testimonies of Aïssatou's friends.

"We blame ourselves later"

A group of friends who often went to Aïssatou's mother, when Gianni D. did not set foot there in the years that followed.

“Our house was open,” says the mother.

When her friends came, I made five kilos of rice a day.

Under the weight of the joyful memories sent by their mother, Aïssatou's brother and sister, sitting on the bench of the civil parties, collapse on themselves.

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"We blame ourselves later," explains Aïssatou's uncle who says he discovered "by chance" the violence suffered by his niece, whom he describes as "peaceful".

According to him, the young woman never spoke of it out of “shame” to her family, to whom she was very close: “She would not have wanted us to be unhappy.

"" I am waiting for life, "Aïssatou's mother replies to the president, who asks her what she hopes for from this trial.

Valenton (Val-de-Marne).

In November 2016, more than 300 people took part in a white march in memory of Aïssatou.

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"I want to be condemned for what I did", assumes Gianni D., questioned this Friday afternoon for the first time.

Athletic-looking, with his hands clasped behind his back, the young man speaks of Aïssatou as the woman he loved "the most in the world".

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“I recognize the violence, I have always recognized it,” he explains spontaneously.

I am not an assassin, I made a big mistake.

When I was 19, I didn't think beatings could take my life.

"" I wonder about the scope of these regrets, the president told him.

In this case, why start again

(Editor's note: to hit Aïssatou)

?

"

A "possession too serious"

“I had taken a nasty habit of raising my hand on her.

He had, he said, "too serious a possession."

Incompatible with the fact that his girlfriend "dresses short", "goes out with boys", "goes out in places not made for her", that is to say in nightclubs.

"Do you know how many women in Paris at night go out to nightclubs?"

“, Tries the president.

“I know, but anger has always taken over, repeats Gianni D. I wanted to impose rules on him because that was my view of things with a woman.

I wanted her to watch only me.

One day, he agrees to go out to a nightclub with Aïssatou and two of his friends.

“At first, the evening was going well,” he says.

But I made the jealous and I was taken out by a bouncer.

It was a week before the fact.

Their relationship of several years which begins with a "crush" changes according to him the day he leaves prison, in 2015. "I became paranoid," he says.

"It seems to me, however, that the two handrails date from 2014 ...", recalls the magistrate.

"Apart from the violence, we were very, very good together"

During her hearing, the court broadcasts to the jurors a video that he had transmitted to her in which she is heard threatening her with death because she would be "in a club with guys".

These images, on which we see him with a weapon in his hand, are not shown to the public, which includes many relatives and friends of the victim.

In this video he has the same calm and calm voice as in the box.

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While the president evokes the day when Aïssatou's uncle came to meet him to explain the violence suffered by his niece and the fact that one of his relatives came down from the house with a dog, "a pitbull or a bulldog ”in the memories of Noël Agossa, Gianni D. corrects:“ I was the one who went down with a dog, it's true, but he was an extremely nice dog.

"

Moment when he slips that he "respects the family" of Aïssatou, who has filed a complaint against him for threats transmitted from Fresnes prison where he spent four years in pre-trial detention.

“And why not Aïssatou?

», Asks the president.

“Aïssatou also I respected her, answers Gianni D. tit for tat.

I didn't put pressure on her to stay with me, but it's true I was using all means.

In truth, apart from the violence, we were very, very good together.

"

Source: leparis

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