Le Figaro Lyon
She says she killed her grandfather out of love. The jurors of the Rhône Assize Court will have to rule in October on the murder of a nonagenarian by his granddaughter in August 2020 in Saint-Laurent-de-Mure, in the eastern suburbs of Lyon. Facts of which the charge says little about the context, according to the defense which will plead assisted suicide. Its author claims to have wanted to put an end to the suffering of her 95-year-old grandfather, bedridden and at the end of his life, to whom she was very close.
“She is not in an activist approach on euthanasia
,” specifies her lawyer, Me Thibaut Clauss.
She is a mother like everyone else who reacted as best she could to the distress of a loved one in an untenable situation.
She had great devotion, great love for her grandfather, visiting him three times a week. She explains her action but regrets it, she recognizes that it was not the right way
.
Neither pre-trial detention nor civil party
This means precisely questioned the investigating magistrates and the prosecution. The young woman had set fire to a sheet of paper and doused a glass of gasoline on the bed to which her grandfather was pinned, in her parents' house. Not necessarily the idea we have of a peaceful departure, even for a highly dependent old man at the end of his life. He finally died of asphyxiation from the fumes in his sleep.
The thirty-year-old, who never denied having killed her grandfather, faces life imprisonment. So far, she has not served a single day in pre-trial detention. His judicial control has regularly been relaxed, the last time this Tuesday, April 16. As for the indictment order issued six months ago, it does not reveal a civil party.
“No member of the family came forward,”
Mr. Clauss emphasizes, “
because the situation was known to everyone
. ”
From the whole family, but not necessarily from the criminal court in the absence of written last wishes.