The Assize Court of Seine-et-Marne, in Melun, sentenced Pierre Pinaud to fifteen years of criminal imprisonment this Friday, for attempted murder by spouse and domestic violence.
This 70-year-old man appeared for stabbing Rose
(the name has been changed)
, his companion, on September 13, 2017 in Meaux.
She survived two stab wounds that pierced her chest.
The general counsel, Coralie Jaquet, had required fifteen years in prison, with socio-judicial monitoring lasting five years: “How lucky we were to have the victim at the hearing!
In 2017, 109 women died from the beatings of their husbands.
On September 13, 2017, she could have joined this macabre procession.
"The magistrate hammered it:" The attempted murder is punished as much as the murder.
The accused failed unintentionally.
There is no bonus for the one who misses his act.
"
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Head down, Pierre Pinaud was hanging on the seat assigned to him outside the box because of his age and state of health.
“When you put two stab wounds between the abdomen and the thorax, it is to kill.
The accused refused to call for help despite the pleas of his companion.
However, the blood flowed like an open tap, it was he who said it, ”said the general counsel.
Before describing an accused who controlled himself that evening: “He cleaned the knife before throwing it out the window.
His only mistake was to have called a friend, who alerted the emergency services.
Without him, we would have known the victim through photos ”, insisted the magistrate.
The defense pleads an alteration of discernment
"His freedom, my client has paid dearly," pleaded the lawyer for the victim, Me Florence Pain.
Before describing a woman "damaged and courageous", who left her apartment in the Beauval district very early in the morning to avoid her violent partner: "A psychologist felt that her emotional capacities were anesthetized.
"
At the hearing, this 69-year-old woman was leaning on a crutch or arriving in a wheelchair.
Once is not customary, the lawyer of the civil party thanked the accused for his frankness, displayed throughout his trial: “You liked your partner with simple codes, even if they are violent.
With you, it is:
You are my wife, you are cheating on me, I screw you up, I assume, I am going to leave for twenty years in prison.
And you recognized it
.
"Hearing these words, Pierre Pinaud whispered a strange" Thank you Master ".
The defense lawyer, Me Thierry Benkimoun, gave his client all his humanity: “Pierre Pinaud reminds me of a character from Audiard or those that Brel sang.
In Pinaud's world, there is the Gros Jojo, the nice guy who doesn't drink and who is called in case of a problem.
There is Jojo the Gypsy, never left to raise his elbow in a drinking bout.
There is friend Fredo.
And then there's this woman, who could have been called Frida.
He loved her, he still loves her.
"
"If he wanted to kill her, why didn't he finish her?"
And the lawyer turns to his client: “You belong to another time, the one when we were loud, where we looked our judges in the eyes.
A time when we faced our responsibilities.
When we were caught, we assumed and we did not turn our guns towards those who had come to arrest you.
"
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But no question of being satisfied with the confessions made by Pierre Pinaud at the hearing, "to satisfy his judges" according to Me Benkimoun, convinced that his client was not "aware" of being able to give death.
“After receiving the stab wounds, his partner managed to get up.
If he really wanted to kill her, why didn't he finish her?
"
And to hammer: "Ten days before, he got rid of his firearms, so as not to use them.
He had 2 grams of alcohol per liter of blood that night.
Did he have the fullness of his discernment at the time of the act?
»And to assure that at the time, his client was taking an antiepileptic, likely to have modified the conscience of his actions.
Pleading thus an alteration or abolition of discernment.
What the court did not retain.
