An 18-year-old who had stabbed his mother-in-law to death in 2020 was sentenced on Friday to 14 years in prison by the Assize Court for minors in Aveyron.
The Advocate General, Mathilde Jayais, had requested a lower sentence, namely ten years in prison.
Then 16 years old, he confessed in September 2020 to the murder of his mother-in-law, who was found dead at her home in Millau.
Thirty stab wounds
The 39-year-old woman had received more than 30 stab wounds, according to the autopsy.
His bleeding body had been discovered by the police, alerted by a neighbor who said he heard screams and a loud noise.
The teenager immediately reported “
a situation of regular bullying and reprimands
”.
"
He couldn't take it anymore
", summarized at the hearing the defendant's lawyers, Lauriane Noto de la Perche and Valérie Bentivegna, for whom this tragedy could have been avoided if the teenager had been placed with a family. reception, as he had requested.
Still according to the defence, the young person is undergoing training in detention and would like to become a dog trainer.
In 2022, a college of psychiatrists and psychologists concluded that there was a "
risk of repetition of the facts almost zero and an equally low dangerousness
".