A man was sentenced in Paris for manslaughter to five years in prison, including four years in prison for having fatally mowed down a transgender prostitute in February 2020 in the Bois de Boulogne, we learned on Monday February 14 from close sources. folder.
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Jessyca Sarmiento, 38, was knocked down around 2:15 a.m. on the night of February 20 to 21, 2020 by a Clio driving at high speed, an act initially described as voluntary.
An investigation had been opened for murder.
The death came a year and a half after the shooting death of another Peruvian transgender sex worker, Vanesa Campos.
A murder for which two Egyptians were sentenced at the end of January to 22 years in prison - a sentence they appealed.
In the judicial investigation into the death of Jessyca Sarmiento, a 20-year-old man was arrested in October 2020 and ultimately dismissed for manslaughter and concealment of evidence.
Alcohol, cannabis and no license
Aboulaye D., who initially denied the facts, admitted having overtaken another vehicle on the right on an avenue in the woods and hit the victim.
“
I panicked, I left
,” he said in the box on February 8 during his trial in Paris, claiming to have been “
scared
”.
That night he had been drinking hard liquor, smoking cannabis and driving without a license.
He claimed to have stormed off because of an altercation with prostitutes just before the facts, a version which has not been corroborated by the investigation.
The investigations established that he had continued on his way without slowing down after the impact, then driving up to 140 km / h on the ring road before stopping in the 20th arrondissement.
There, a resident saw a man trying in vain to set fire to his Clio by introducing a burning paper into the tank, before wiping the car with newspaper and trying to tear off the plate.
“
It was a stroke of madness
,” he told the court.
DNA traces in the car made it possible to trace him.
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The prosecutor had requested five years of imprisonment against him.
In addition to the sentence, the defendant was ordered to pay 10,000 euros to three members of the victim's family, as well as to compensate for the costs incurred by them and by the association for the defense of the rights of trans people Acceptess-T.
Jessyca Sarmiento was of Peruvian nationality.
Arrived in France in April 2019, she dreamed of being a cook, took French lessons and "
did everything to get by
", the general manager of Acceptess-T told AFP at the time.
