The most violent of the three women tried for the appalling kidnapping of a teenage girl, in Meudon in 2014, was questioned at length this year. "I assume the harm I did to Bérangère (the name has been changed), the suffering I inflicted on her," she said.

Incarceration, yes, it would be deserved, she told the Assize Court of Hauts-de-Seine. "The death penalty." This is what Wendy expects from her trial.