Mother of three children, she faces life imprisonment for intentional homicide.
Alexandra Richard, a 42-year-old woman sentenced Friday in Rouen (Seine-Maritime) to 10 years in prison for killing her violent partner, appealed against this decision, we learned on Tuesday.
"There was at least a doubt as to the intention to kill", justifies Me Nathalie Tomasini, the lawyer of the accused, by announcing this appeal that the court confirmed on Tuesday.
On October 16, 2016, Alexandra Richard shot her 36-year-old husband with a hunting rifle at their home in Montreuil-en-Caux, when the latter, alcoholic, had just risen from his chair, threatening her with him "Kick the ass".
During the hearing before the Assize Court of Seine-Maritime on Thursday, Advocate General Corinne Gérard had requested 10 years of imprisonment, but for willful violence resulting in death without intention of giving it and not for intentional homicide, the charge finally retained.
"Accidental"
The defense, for its part, had requested a reclassification of the facts as manslaughter.
It is an "accidental shot."
This is corroborated by the conclusions of ballistics experts, ”pleads Me Tomasini who was the counsel of Jacqueline Sauvage, sentenced to have killed her husband before being pardoned at the end of 2016.
Alexandra Richard's spouse was "alive when the Samu intervened and this for 30 minutes," she argues.
In addition "the quantum of the sentence", 10 years of prison, "is not acceptable", estimates Me Tomasini.
According to her, her client suffered both physical, sexual and psychological violence from her partner.
Online petition
The lawyer for the parents of the deceased, Me Rose-Marie Capitaine had estimated Thursday that it was "not possible to hold back the manslaughter or the fatal blows".
"If it's to scare, no need to load the gun," as the accused had done, she had argued.
"There were excesses in (the victim) but from there to present him as a torturer, let's avoid these excesses", she added.
“Even in prison, I slept better than next to him.
Nobody hit me, ”said Thursday at the bar Alexandra Richard, who made provisional detention.
A petition entitled “no prison for Alexandra Richard”, launched before the start of the trial, showed nearly 40,000 signatures on Tuesday.
