Shamran Mehmood, a 37-year-old Pakistani, is accused of the murder of Sandra Bignet at the Franprix in Quincy-sous-Sénart, in Essonne. “I was sitting in an aisle tidying up.

I heard a voice, a muffled cry. I looked around. I went to the other side of the store and that's when I saw that the Romanian and her were arguing, he was grabbing her by the neck,” assures the accused in a barely audible monotone voice.