He has always denied having killed his son but never clearly said he was "innocent".
The jurors of the Hauts-de-Seine Assize Court have ruled.
For them, Mohieddine D. is "guilty".
This Friday evening, they sentenced this father tried for the murder of his son, who will have lived eighteen months with the rotting corpse in his apartment in Neuilly-sur-Seine, to a sentence of 25 years imprisonment, strictly following the requisitions of the general counsel.
This verdict rules out de facto the thesis of the accident that Mohieddine D. served throughout the investigation and until the end of his trial.
For the general counsel, Marion Camaro, it is crystal clear: “It is not a domestic accident as Mohieddine D. says. His son did not impal himself on the knife by himself.
In the eyes of the Advocate General, nothing that this 69-year-old self-confident and arrogant man says is credible.
Before the requisitions, Mohieddine D. was questioned at length on the facts, on this day in December 2015 when his son died of a massive hemorrhage due to a stab wound, in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
As throughout his trial, the elegant-looking sixty-year-old drowned the Assize Court with digressions.
An argument before Christmas
If we evacuate these digressions leading him always to praise his large financial means, while he was ruined, his "high-level relations" and many friends, while none came to testify, we retain a confused story , confining at times to the ridiculous.
On Christmas Eve 2015, Mohieddine D. and his son argue.
Until now, it is because the child did not want to go on vacation to Algeria, according to his father.
On the last day of the trial, it is because of “gifts” that the child would have claimed for himself and his dog, Mohieddine D. advance, with this sufficient tone.
The child, who is not quite 15, is in his room.
If we follow Mohieddine D., the teenager takes a knife and does "like that", he mimics from the box of the accused, to show that the kid is pretending to stab himself.
“I didn't take it seriously.
He started to jump on the bed and then it fell, ”he continues.
The blade would then have sunk into the teenager's stomach.
"It is indeed a deliberate homicide"
"Depressed 15 cm," recalls the general counsel.
The forensic expert said so.
In the event of a fall, the reflex is to let go of the knife, not to hold it firmly.
"Insufficient argument according to Me Zoé Royaux, lawyer for Mohieddine D.:" We do not all have the same reflexes.
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As for the knife, never found, Mohieddine D. once said that his son kept it in his room to tinker with his game consoles, another that he was on the meal tray brought to his child just before the drama.
"But it is a butcher's knife, not a knife that is used at the table," corrects the general counsel.
As for the wounds in the back, some 10 cm deep, the victim could not inflict them on himself.
“It is not a domestic accident, it is indeed an intentional homicide.
"
Masters Zoé Royaux and Laurent Simeray, lawyers of Mohieddine D. LP / VM
Whatever the circumstances of the victim's death, Mohieddine D. did not react.
The teenager was bleeding.
“I saw his guts, it was terrible.
I put it in the living room, he said it
hurts, it hurts,
said the accused.
I sat him down on a chair, two seconds after he fell, his head to the side of the room.
"
"I was in awe"
He died, his father did not call for help, covered him with cloth and there it was.
The corpse stayed there, in that little hallway leading to the victim's bathroom and bedroom, for a year and a half.
"I was amazed," Mohieddine kept repeating.
The word reason was no longer in my vocabulary.
"
“The astonishment is fleeting.
Eighteen months of living with her son's body in a hallway cannot be explained by astonishment, ”retorts Marion Camaro.
"This astonishment that he describes is actually post-traumatic stress, the psychiatrist explained", pleaded Me Royaux, reproaching the general counsel for not having taken into account "the depression" of his client and inviting the jurors to take into account his "weaknesses".
At the end of 2014, Mohieddine D.'s wife passed away.
At the same time and although he denies it, his business has collapsed.
He for whom success is a necessity, for whom social rank is of major importance, began to waver.
He "overinvested" his son, "crystallized all his hopes" on this child, summarizes Zoé Royaux.
"I paid him the best schools, he had the congratulations of his teachers", assured Mohieddine D. Except that not at all.
Her son was facing serious academic difficulties and his father was in denial.
Denial again, during these eighteen months spent with the rotting body of her child.