" I love you baby.
"" You are a dirty whore.
“By themselves, these two examples of text messages sent during the same conversation by Gianni D. illustrate the roller coaster that he was able to make Aïssatou experience with whom he had shared a relationship for at least five years.
Before he left her for dead on September 18, 2016, in front of the elevator on the 3rd floor of his building in Valenton (Val-de-Marne).
Friday, it will be four years, to the day, that the young woman succumbed to her injuries at the age of 21.
That evening, because she was "afraid of him", Aïssatou, who worked as a temporary worker in a chain of cultural products, had asked to be accompanied home by a friend.
She had a lot of them.
And they were the ones who told it Thursday on the first day of her ex-boyfriend's murder trial.
Long hair tied up, Gianni D., 21, head down half the time, faces life imprisonment at this trial, the verdict of which is expected Monday.
Aïssatou's relatives have put up posters near the Créteil court as the trial of her ex-boyfriend approaches for "murder".
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"I hit her because I'm jealous"
“I hit her because I'm jealous,” he explains spontaneously on September 18, when the police come to arrest him at his mother's house around 10 am.
He tries to flee and threatens to break out of the window.
Before surrendering and being placed in police custody where he invokes his right to silence.
While he meets Aïssatou's friends at the police station, he assures us that he will "tie them up in a cellar and kill them", as the SDPJ investigator, present at the time, relates at the bar.
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Aïssatou, she is in the hospital and in a coma after being discovered on the ground, her head in a pool of blood.
She received a slap in the face and several kicks to the head.
To believe the testimony of a neighbor on the floor, who sounded the alarm, her cry went through two doors and a long corridor.
"I killed your sister," Gianni D. announces by telephone to Aïssatou's sister before leaving.
Why these blows?
Because she was "out", summarize her friends at the trial.
A few hours earlier, their small group crossed paths with three friends of Gianni D. in front of a nightclub.
We now know that he texted her to insult her before going to her home to wait for her.
"Wasn't it thinkable that she was going out without him?"
»Asks the president to one of his friends.
"It was unthinkable that she was going out at all," she retorts.
The only times she was quiet was when he was in jail.
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Symbol of violence against women
"Locally known" to the police, Gianni D. has 17 mentions in his criminal record, including an eight-month prison sentence for robbery with violence with a temporary eight-day work break.
In the wake of his hospitalization, that of Aïssatou is estimated at twenty-one days.
She died on October 30 after six weeks in a coma.
And becomes a "figure" of violence against women.
His uncle, Noël Agossa, created the collective “Plus Never That” and organized a white march in memory of Aïssatou.
The year following his death, he launched a petition to denounce the “harassment” of which his family was subjected by Gianni D., from the prison which now collects more than 30,000 signatures.
Valenton.
On November 12, 2017, around 300 people walked in silence in memory of Aïssatou.
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“It destroyed us,” relates one of her friends at the helm.
In one of the messages sent to relatives, he announces that he will "come out", with an emoticon representing a water pistol.
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In a video sent to Aïssatou a few months earlier, he explained to her, armed with a revolver and ammunition, that he was going to "kill her".
She also shows it to one of her friends on the evening of September 17.
"She told me that she was not afraid because he had done it drunk," said the latter at the bar.
"And even if it is, is there no reason to worry?"
»Asks a lawyer for the civil party.
"We must always qualify things"
"I gave her advice but she always ended up getting back to him", summarizes this witness.
Listening to them, Aïssatou's friends all knew without exception that she was the victim of repeated violence, "daily", that she was "in the grip".
One of them is questioned by a defense lawyer for having in 2016, ten days apart, explained that Aissatou had lodged a complaint before withdrawing it, "for love" the first time, "under pressure from Gianni " the second.
“I was 18, reframe this one.
I took a step back.
Sad to say but I grew up with an image of women victims of violence and it was commonplace for me.
"On several occasions, they are in their role, the defense lawyers take care to qualify their relationship as" very complex ":" We must always qualify things.
"
Valenton.
On the right, Aïssatou's uncle, Noël Agossa, created the collective “Never again” for women victims of violence against women.
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Aïssatou had placed two handrails against Gianni D. She did not mention it.
“She was a very classy and thoughtful girl,” says one of her friends who came into her life for the past two years.
The worst, according to these four testimonials.
“If she was as you describe, how could she have accepted such a surge of violence?
»Asks the president.
“Even today, I don't know,” replies the young woman.
They lived next door, they had known each other for a long time, she couldn't escape him.
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Crowded room: how the trial came close to being in camera
“Now is not the time to have an audience like this!
"Looking at the public this Thursday, one of the two defense lawyers of Gianni D. asked the president to take measures so that the trial takes place in all serenity ... health.
There was indeed no longer a seat at the opening of the debates.
"People have to come out, it seems to me to be common sense," he explains, denying himself that he wants to harm the "publicity of the debates".
Those who were not part of the victim's family or the civil party were therefore asked to leave.
Same requirement Friday and Monday for the rest of the trial, while confinement comes into force at midnight on the night of Thursday to Friday.
