"You have to be able to project them because it's not virtual," explains in the extract the president of an assize court. On May 25, a new issue of "Envoyé Spécial" was broadcast on France 2, presented by Élise Lucet. Exceptionally, the cameras of the show were authorized to film an appeal trial in an assize court in its entirety. The deal? The femicide of a man on his wife, whom he suspected of being unfaithful to him. For the judges that day, the issue is whether they will try the man for murdering the accused with or without premeditation?
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On the sequence, shared on Twitter, the man is confronted with the post-mortem images of his companion, which he discovers for the first time. If the photos of the victim's face are blurred, it is easy to image the violence of the act. Sitting in the dock, he is first seen looking away, then panting, before rising abruptly to leave the courtroom. "I have to get out," he said, surrounded by police. Joined by his lawyers, the latter asks, angrily: "Why did they put that?"
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'Dead under her blows'
The purpose of this unpublished document was to decipher in detail the springs of an appeal trial in the Assize Court. How does this work? What is everyone's role? But it also showed a new facet of domestic violence. "I don't know what images he keeps from that night," one of the accused's lawyers explains in the excerpt. He knows that he committed these acts, he bears the consequences, but he had never seen him die under his blows." Faced with the denial of the aggressors, the trial then turns out to be an electroshock.