Thirty years of criminal imprisonment: this is the verdict of the Paris Assize Court delivered this Friday evening April 7 against a woman for the assassination in 2019 against a background of voodoo witchcraft of his 36-year-old wife.
His two co-defendants are sentenced to 18 and 25 years in prison.
The Advocate General had requested this same sentence of thirty years' imprisonment on Thursday against the main defendant, Christy Daupin, a 42-year-old ex-bus driver, for her "essential" responsibility in this
assassination
.
The court attached this conviction to a two-thirds security period, in accordance with the prosecution's requisitions.
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Sylvia, employee of a DIY store and mother of two young children, was killed on March 23, 2019 in the parking lot of her building in the 17th arrondissement of Paris.
His body was found a month later in an undergrowth in Val-d'Oise.
"Influence of an Indian Voodoo Priestess"
Sylvia had announced that she wanted to separate from Christy Daupin in mid-2018 after four years of marriage and had started a new relationship.
On February 13, 2019, she had signed a consent for Christy Daupin to adopt the twins she had given birth to in 2013. But she had two months to retract.
Christy Daupin claimed to have acted under
the "influence
" of a Haitian voodoo priestess, who allegedly gave her instructions for a "
disenchantment
" that went wrong.
Friday morning, before the court retired to deliberate, she had asked "
forgiveness to the whole family
", saying "
(regret) really what happened
".
This thesis of "
disenchantment
" had been dismissed by the Advocate General, who had described voodoo as a simple reason to "
push
" Christy Daupin towards the goal pursued, "
eliminate the mother of her children
" to "
obtain a status with
" 'them.
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It was 'to kill her'
Tried in the box at his side since March 28, Sabrina Moreau, who was Christy Daupin's new girlfriend at the time, and Iven Webster, a close friend of Haitian origin, were sentenced to 18 and 25 years respectively. imprisonment for murder.
Sentences of 20 to 22 years and 25 years had been requested against them by the representative of the prosecution.
Sabrina Moreau is the only one to have always recognized that when the trio had lured the victim into the parking lot, it was “
to kill her
”.
