The young man responsible for the murder of Marjorie, 17, killed with a knife in May 2021 in Ivry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) was sentenced in June to eight years in prison for murder, a we learned this Wednesday from the Créteil prosecutor's office.
The juvenile court also sentenced the teenager, aged 14 at the time of the events and still in detention, to follow educational measures for five years and ordered socio-judicial follow-up for three years.
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Following "vehement" exchanges on social networks, in particular on Snapchat, the young man, born in 2006, had stabbed Marjorie in the chest, who had come to explain himself to him, at the foot of a building in the Pierre- and Marie-Curie in Ivry-sur-Seine.
After a first altercation, he had gone home and, on his way down to go to football training, he had met the young girl again.
It was during this second physical and verbal altercation that he fatally stabbed Marjorie.
Arrested a few hours later at his mother's home in Essonne, he quickly recognized the facts.
At the time, Marjorie's older sister said the teenager "wasn't a delinquent" and "just came to sort out a problem with (her) little sister.
She had come to calm the situation.
Contacted on Wednesday, Marjorie's family lawyer could not be reached immediately.
“It is a sentence not very far removed (from that required by the) public prosecutor, this sentence was perceived by my client and by his parents as being balanced, as leaving the possibility for my client to reintegrate with a reasonable and took into account the nature of the facts”, reacted for his part the lawyer of the teenager, Me Adrien Gabeaud, who did not appeal this decision.