Mickaël Philétas had
“a plan”
for the night of January 29, 2020, but
“it was not aimed at killing Mélanie Ghione
,” he insisted on Wednesday before the Nanterre Assize Court of Appeal.
For two weeks, the 43-year-old man has been trying to demonstrate that he did not intend, nor premeditated, to stab his former partner to death eighty times.
Likewise, the victim's new boyfriend, Brayan, and the latter's little sister, Mallaury, who survived the dozens of stabbings inflicted, were not part of his
"plan"
, he swears.
Dismissed in the summer of 2020 after four years of relationship with Mélanie, the self-proclaimed seduction expert is having trouble turning the page.
“Abandonment is perceived as a threat” by this
“self-centered and megalomaniac”
man
with paranoid tendencies, according to the expert psychiatrists and psychologists who took the stand.
“It is unbearable for him not to be in control of the situation.”
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