A 39-year-old Turkish man, who stabbed himself with a knife in the street on his wife with whom he was going through a divorce in 2017, was condemned to 25 years of criminal imprisonment by the assizes of the Loire, in the night from Friday to Saturday.
At the end of three days of trial, the jury followed the requisitions of Advocate General Marco Scuccimara by also pronouncing the “withdrawal of parental authority” from this father of four children, aged 6 to 13 years.
In addition to the murder of his wife Hulya, 34, from whom he lived apart, Eyup Kantar was also found guilty of "attempted murder" of his ex-wife's new companion.
He had stabbed her fifteen times, after forcing entry into their common home, in La Grand-Croix (Loire), on the night of August 12 to 13, 2017.
Seven deadly blows
After seriously injuring this Senegalese man, the murderer then set off in pursuit of his wife who had run out of the accommodation.
In the middle of the street, when he saw witnesses, he grabbed her by the hair and stabbed her 27 times, including "seven strokes deemed fatal" by the medical examiner.
The prosecution dismantled the explanations of this practicing Muslim who spoke in his defense of a "love crime" and "a stroke of madness". Established in France for fifteen years, this facade maker by trade is only expressed in Turkish.
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Rather, the Crown described the facts as a "premeditated possession crime" on the part of the man who raped his wife and who warned that he would not let her leave him, according to members of the victim's family called to closed off.
Me Annick Sadurni, representative of the association Childhood and sharing, civil party for the four children of the couple, explained that the latter "no longer want to speak to their father, nor see him".