The thirty-year-old set fire to her 95-year-old grandfather's mattress to alleviate his suffering, she assures. The jurors of the Rhône Assize Court will have to rule in October on the murder of a nonagenarian by his granddaughter in August 2020 in Saint-Laurent-de-Mure, in the eastern suburbs of Lyon.
The defense will plead assisted suicide, according to the defense, which will say she killed her grandfather out of love. The young woman has not served a single day in pre-trial detention, she has not been charged with a crime, and she has never denied having killed the man, who died of asphyxiation from the fumes in his sleep. She is not an activist on euthanasia,' specifies her lawyer, Me Thibaut Clauss. "She is a mother like everyone else who reacted as best she could to the distress of a loved one in an untenable situation," he adds.