Jurors retained self defense. The Nancy prosecutor's office appealed Tuesday against the acquittal, pronounced Friday by the assize court, of a 32-year-old woman who had fatally stabbed her violent partner in 2016.
"The prosecution has noted the appeal from the judgment of the Assize Court of Meurthe-et-Moselle which acquitted Ms. Harelle," said Tuesday the Attorney General of the Nancy Court of Appeal, Jean-Jacques Bosc.
After three days of trial, Florianne Harelle, 32, had been acquitted by the jurors who had found self-defense. Victim of recurrent domestic violence, she had stabbed her 27-year-old partner in the heart with a stab in November 2016 in Longuyon.
A climate of permanent violence
The Advocate General had requested eight years in prison, considering that the young woman, who had targeted a vital area, had intended to kill her companion.
"I am of course very satisfied because self-defense is very difficult to obtain, there must be proportionality, and there in this case she had a knife and her companion was not armed," said the lawyer for the accused, Jean Kopf, after the verdict.
Before the jurors, Florianne Harelle had told of her ordeal as a battered woman. She, whom her friends sometimes nicknamed the Dalmatian because she was covered in bruises, lived in a climate of permanent violence, reported on Thursday the Republican East.
