A 16-year-old girl, Jade, was sentenced on Saturday evening, after four days of closed-door trials in Pointe-à-Pitre, to 14 years in prison for the murder of her mother in July 2020 in Baie -Mahault.
Before the juvenile court ruling in criminal matters, the deputy prosecutor Marie-Eve Brunet had required 15 years in this "case of dizzying complexity".
The defense unsuccessfully pleaded the accidental act.
Premeditation or accident ...
On July 6, 2020, the 48-year-old victim was fatally injured by a bullet in the neck in her car when she had parked in the parking lot of the Destreland shopping center in Baie-Mahault, one of the most large shopping centers in the archipelago.
The first elements collected on the spot had suggested a suicide attempt but the investigation was quickly directed towards the young girl who accompanied her mother that day.
From corroborating sources, the prosecution has indeed underlined that the teenager had "tried" the weapon at home before the facts and had called the sister of her mother to tell her that the latter had "suicidal thoughts".
According to RCI, the defense would have claimed that the murder weapon, belonging a priori to the father of the young girl, would have been recovered by the teenager in July 2020, and was intended for her boyfriend.
But the mother allegedly discovered it in the car in the parking lot of the shopping center, and tried to grab it.
It would have followed an argument, physical exchanges, then the drama ...
"An involuntary manslaughter" for the defense
Joint, the President of the Bar Roland Ezelin, lawyer for the father of the victim, civil party, said he was "surprised" by this decision.
“The qualification could have turned into manslaughter and the penalty reduced,” he said.
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Emphasizing the school career "of an extremely brilliant young girl", Me Jenny Morvan, the defense lawyer, announced her intention to appeal.
"The decision is excessive insofar as all the elements of the file suggest that it is indeed an accident," she said.
