Life imprisonment was requested on Friday afternoon in Lyon against a 41-year-old former cabaret singer, tried since Tuesday by the Rhône Assize Court for the assassination of his companion in June 2018.
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“
You have to judge a man who chose to commit a crime in cold blood
”, declared in his indictment the general counsel, Marie-Charlotte Fiorio, who also requested a security sentence of twenty-two years.
Mikael Corcessin-Dervin is accused of having killed Aline Sepret, a 35-year-old dancer, and of having burned her body, on June 16, 2018 in Taluyers (Rhône), south of Lyon.
A “worrying determination”
During the hearing, the magistrate endeavored to detail the multiple maneuvers of the accused on the evening of the facts, underlining in the latter a "
disturbing determination
" in the commission of his gesture.
According to the public prosecutor, the forty-year-old thus ensured, for example, the cancellation of the visit of a neighbor to his home on the day of the alleged feminicide.
In addition, toxicological analyzes carried out as part of the investigation showed that a drug had been poured into two glasses used by the victim.
"
This preparation was intended to reduce the victim's resistance capacities.
“, estimated Marie-Charlotte Fiorio, specifying that an overdose of more than 500 drops of Amitriptyline – a painkiller prescribed to the accused after a car accident – had been found in the body of the victim.
The dosage of this medication, whose sedative effect may be increased by alcohol, is usually limited to 50 drops per day.
For the magistrate, the bits of fabric found in the mouth and on the neck of the accused accredit the thesis of a strangulation with a belt with the introduction of a piece of fabric in his mouth "
to silence him
".
According to her, he then burned her body “
only to make the evidence disappear
”.
Mikael Corcessin-Dervin still presents “
significant dangerousness
”, further estimated Marie-Charlotte Fiorio for whom “
the psychiatrist expert exposed a criminological risk if he remains self-centered
”.
“
It is clear that he has not advanced an inch
“, she pointed out.
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Earlier in the morning, the Machiavellianism of the accused had been mentioned by the lawyer for the family of the young dancer.
"
You had created your spider's web and you could not get out of
it," said Me Patrick Uzan for whom Mikael Corcessin would be at the origin of an attempted murder of his companion a month before his disappearance.
In May 2018, the young woman woke up in the middle of the night with her head bleeding.
The accused claimed that she was injured because of an epileptic fit.
“
He is hostage to his simulacra, he thinks we are inferior
,” concluded Me Uzan.
