These are the words of an "angry" man who are addressed this Friday to the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron. In an open letter, which Le Figaro was able to consult exclusively, Yasin Hensye, speaks bluntly about the tragic fate of her little sister, Shaïna, stabbed and burned alive at 15 years old by the boy she was dating. "She suffered and her tormentors never expressed the slightest regret," laments the 25-year-old Creille, two weeks after the sentencing of the killer of Shaïna to 18 years in prison.
Rumours and prejudices
This drama is the epilogue of a long-term relentlessness, emanating from several young men, against the teenager victim of a rumor, the one that wanted her to be an easy girl. "He burned her alive, because she was a 'whore,'" says Yasin Hensye, recalling that it all started with a video posted on social networks by Shaïna's first boyfriend in 2017. The images exposed the girl, aged 13, partially naked, humiliated by three teenagers. They were convicted of sexual assault in late May and given suspended prison sentences ranging from one to two years.
Because, despite the relentlessness, Shaïna never admitted defeat and systematically wanted to bring the persecution of which she was victim to justice. Here again, however, it has come up against prejudice. "The doctors found that 'she undressed easily', the policewoman who received her complaint felt 'she showed no emotion'. Because we are proud to be French, we told ourselves that this was an isolated case, that twice in a row, we had come across people who were unscrupulous at best, incompetent at worst. But that the Republic had the right to make casting mistakes," his older brother wrote to the president.
'Judicial machine gripped'
Disappointed and disillusioned by the treatment of his family by a "seized judicial machine", Yasin Hensye remains no less combative. And the rage that now animates him "is not deaf" or "uncontrolled", he assures. "Mr. President, I know what to do with my anger ... It is too late for Shaïna (...) but it is not too late for the sisters of others, for the daughters of others", writes the young man who addresses his letter to "all those teenagers and young women in our neighborhoods who no longer dare to love, no longer dare to speak, afraid at the idea of ending up like my sister, because their attackers will no longer be afraid."
The one who has devoted the last six years - his youth - to the judicial fight to symbolically relieve the sentences of Shaïna demands to break "the guilty silence of our politicians in the face of the situation of girls in our neighborhoods. These suns that the violence of men eclipses (...) I remain confident in your determination to act in the interest of justice and the security of all our citizens," concludes Yasin Hensye.