Mickaël Philétas had “a plan” for the night of January 29, 2020, but “it was not aimed at killing Mélanie Ghione,” he insisted on Wednesday before the Nanterre Assize Court of Appeal. The 43-year-old man has been trying to demonstrate that he did not intend, nor premeditated, to stab his former partner to death eighty times.
“Abandonment is perceived as a threat” by this “self-centered and megalomaniac” man with paranoid tendencies, according to the expert psychiatrists and psychologists who took the stand.