The lawyer general of the Assize Court of Minors of Marne requested Friday 20 years of criminal imprisonment against the two young people tried behind closed doors for the murder of a high school friend in 2018, in a park of Mourmelon-le-Grand (Marne).
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"
I accepted the excuse of minority, because the accused
", 17 years old at the time of the facts, "
had not been able to measure the gravity and the extent of their acts
" indicated Ombeline Mahuzier, prosecutor of Châlons-en -Champagne and general counsel for this trial.
“
I demanded the same sentence for both, because they are co-perpetrators of Kevin's assassination.
They both have blood on their hands,
”she adds, during a recess.
“
My clients said thank you
», Commented Fanny Quentin, lawyer for the parents of Kevin, killed at 17 years old.
The trial had changed as soon as it opened on Tuesday when O., one of the two young accused, had finally admitted all his responsibility.
A direct witness to the assault of June 2, 2018, O. had denied throughout the investigation, and until the day before the trial, having been the inspiration and the sponsor of the murder of her ex-boyfriend, who died. to 34 stab wounds carried by A., one of his flirtatious at the time.
According to Fanny Quentin, O. admitted in court that she "
lied about everything, including the episodes of distancing she described to justify her non-intervention during Kevin's murder."
Including the rape accusation she brought against Kevin to heat A.
”.
The investigation had established that the teenager had indeed made an appointment with the victim in the Bois-des-Sœurs park when they had not seen each other for three months.
The investigators had also established that O.
and A. had met an hour before the murder, at the media library in Mourmelon-le-Grand, to complete the final details of the ambush extended to Kevin.
If the young girl multiplied the versions before her confession before the Assize Court, A. on the other hand never varied version.
Passionate about weapons and reconstructions of military warrior episodes, and madly in love with O., according to his entourage, he admitted from his custody, on June 4, 2018, to be the author of the fatal blows to Kevin with an American knife from the 1940s, a gift from his family.
Judgment is expected late in the evening.
