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"He considered it a thing": Shaïna's ex-boyfriend, stabbed and burned alive at 15, tried for murder

2023-06-05T04:21:13.236Z

Highlights: Shaïna, 15, was burned alive in a shed. Her boyfriend at the time is on trial from Monday for "murder" In 2017, in the cities of Creil, the rumor swells that Shaïna would be an easy girl, "a whore" Her boyfriend blackmails her with a nude photo of her that he holds. After six years of legal battle, the family secured the conviction of the trio, who were convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to suspended prison sentences.


STORY - After two years of humiliation and relentlessness, Shaïna, 15, was burned alive in a shed. Her boyfriend at the time is on trial from Monday for "murder".


In 2017, in the cities of Creil, the rumor swells. Shaïna, 13, would be an easy girl, "a whore". Her boyfriend blackmails her with a nude photo of her that he holds. So that this image is not displayed to everyone, Shaïna agrees to join him in a disused clinic where he has given her an appointment. An encounter that turns out to be an ambush orchestrated by his companion and two other teenagers. All three rape her, film her partially naked and broadcast live on Snapchat these images of relentlessness and humiliation.

Last week, after six years of legal battle, Shaïna's family secured the conviction of the trio, who were convicted of sexual assault and sentenced on appeal to suspended prison sentences ranging from one to two years. If the justice has endorsed the incredible violence of this scene, in 2017 the images of Shaïna's aggression only tarnished her reputation in the city where she lived and triggered her ordeal, until her death.

Mockery, humiliation and threats

Two years after the sexual assault, Shaïna was beaten by her then-boyfriend for reporting the incident to the police, she said in a new complaint. "Shaïna was threatened, mocked. Her brother was obliged to accompany her on her travels in order to protect her from others. It has profoundly changed their way of life, "says the Figaro the lawyer of the family of the girl, Me Negar Haeri.

« These nude images of my sister, no matter how hard we tried to fight them, they remained anchored in people's heads. »

Yasin Hansye, the victim's older brother.

"It's been a very complicated time. These naked images of my sister, no matter how hard we tried to fight them, they remained anchored in people's heads, portrays her older brother, Yasin Hansye. We did everything to make Shaïna feel better. She changed schools, we went to the cinema, we went on vacation... Despite everything, my sister was very strong, she had an incredible thirst for freedom and justice. She continued to put on makeup, to get ready, to go out," he continues.

In the summer of 2019, Shaïna met a boy on Snapchat. They date regularly and the girl, who is now 15, falls in love. She even ends up discovering that she is pregnant. On October 25, they exchanged more than a hundred messages, according to their phone records, and agreed to meet at nightfall. After dinner, Shaïna leaves the family apartment, but never returns to her teenage bedroom. The next day, his absence worries while, in the city, a new rumor runs: a shed in the district of the plateau Rouher caught fire and these flames would hide a corpse. Quickly the doubts are removed, it is indeed Shaïna's body.

"We must be aware of the suffering she has endured. A charred body is a body that no longer exists. »

Me Negar Haeri, lawyer for the civil parties.

Stabbed a dozen times, the teenager was then burned alive and abandoned in this cagibi, under the windows of a bar of low-rent buildings. "The autopsy concludes that she died of thermal burns. Soot was found in her lungs, showing that she was still breathing at the beginning of the fire. We must be aware of the suffering she has endured. A charred body is a body that no longer exists," says Negar Haeri.

"He saw it as a thing"

Without delay, suspicions fall on her new boyfriend, a 17-year-old teenager "who became interested in Shaïna because of her reputation as an easy girl. He considered it a thing," Yasin Hansye said. In front of investigators, a friend of the suspect claims that the latter confessed to him his crime, explaining that he did not want the child Shaïna was expecting. "It is not clear on his alibi on the night of the murder and he turned off his phone between 21:36 p.m. and 22:13 p.m., the approximate time of the incident. When he turns it back on, he is in a very small perimeter around the crime scene. This phone, as well as Shaïna's, could never be found. When he was interrogated right after the incident, he had a burn mark on his leg. If he says it is eczema, experts are able to establish that it is indeed a burn. We have real charges against this young man," Haeri said.

« This file was built to reinforce my client's guilt. »

Me Elise Arfi, defence lawyer.

Placed in pre-trial detention for three years, the accused is tried for "murder" from Monday before the assize court of minors of the Oise. Since the beginning of the investigation, he has repeatedly maintained his innocence. His lawyer, Me Elise Arfi, denounces a file "fragile, which is only based on rumors, testimonies of people who were not present at the time of the facts, and without any material evidence. This file was built to reinforce the guilt of my client, without being interested in the first teenagers who had attacked Shaïna in previous assaults. Could it not be one of them who would have, once again, sought revenge on this young girl? We'll never know," says the lawyer.

A file "fragile, without material evidence"

Me Élise Arfi also indicates that her client used condoms during his sexual relations with Shaïna, thus denying being the father of the child she was expecting. What, according to the defense, defuse the motive of the crime advanced by the prosecution who maintains that the defendant preferred to remove Shaïna rather than have a child with the one everyone considered "an easy girl". "They want us to believe that a 17-year-old teenager, who works well at school, is educated by parents well in all respects, has engineered a murder worthy of a movie? It does not hold, "says Elise Arfi who will plead the acquittal.

As the trial approaches, Shaïna's brother oscillates between "anger, determination and apprehension". The 25-year-old, who saw his youth drowned in legal battles, says he is "ready to hear any form of nonsense. I don't expect anything from him. I trust justice and I want an exemplary sentence, life imprisonment."

Source: lefigaro

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