Thirty years of imprisonment were required, this Friday, July 10, in appeal in Montpellier against Ramon Cortès for the “ execution ” in 2013 of the mother of her children, Rosine Roig, a mistreated and threatened woman who had tried in vain to alert about his " announced death ".
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The lawyer general Albert Cantinol thus asked for the maintenance of the sentence of first instance, admitting to having " hesitated to go up on the last step of the perpetuity " for Ramon Cortès, 50 years. He castigated a man who kept " discarding ", especially on his mistress Sandrine Delporte, 49, after having " assumed the divine power of life and death over the mother of his children ". Mr. Cantinol, on the other hand, asked for a lighter sentence than at first instance, “ 13 to 15 years ” instead of 18 years of imprisonment, for the mistress of Cortès, animated according to him by “an authentic feeling of guilt ” and who did not appeal.
An “emblematic” case of violence against women
The Advocate General spoke of an “ emblematic ” case of violence against women and presented “ the excuses ” from the public prosecutor's office to the family of the victim after those of the public prosecutor at first instance in 2017 in Perpignan.
Mr. Cantinol wrote the " chronicle of an announced death ": Rosine Roig, ill-treated for years, threatened with being burned or shot in the head, forced to leave her home, "was waiting for a gendarme come and interrupt the infernal spiral of fear ”. " If I catch you, I will kill you ," Ramon Cortès had notably launched to the mother of his children who had finally dared to leave him in June 2013. " I know he is watching me, Ramon scares me, he is completely crazy, "said the victim a few days before being kidnapped in front of his work at the Céret museum, then killed by a bullet in the head and buried in a hole previously dug in the old sand pit of Ortaffa (Pyrénées-Orientales ) September 16, 2013.
Released under judicial supervision last January by the Nîmes Court of Appeal due to the fact that the " reasonable time ", which must not exceed two years, has passed before his appeal trial, Ramon Cortès was absent at the start of his trial on call Monday morning after trying to flee. Arrested Monday at dawn in Villeneuve-lez-Avignon (Gard), he had been transferred to Montpellier where his trial could have started on Monday afternoon. The verdict is expected in the evening.
