A "pathological jealousy". The Assize Court of Bas-Rhin sentenced this Wednesday to 30 years of imprisonment a man who had strangled to death his only daughter, aged 7, to take revenge for an alleged extramarital relationship that he lent to his girlfriend.
After two days of trial, the accused, aged 47, escaped life imprisonment, after the jurors had found an alteration of his discernment. "I wanted him to be seen as a man in court. Even if his act was monstrous because of his pathological condition, he was not a monster, "said his lawyer, Clément Pialat.
He spoke of the "pathological jealousy" of his client, who presented a "paranoid syndrome pushed to its paroxysm". "I asked that he be tried as a human being. The fact that the Assize Court recognized his medical condition made it possible to restore his dignity," he added.
"Because of him, I'm no longer a mother"
In December 2020, in Ostwald (Bas-Rhin), in the suburbs of Strasbourg, the father of the family had killed his daughter in his bed, before informing himself his companion, a nursing assistant in a nursing home, and the police.
According to the daily Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace, the man, who never wanted to work, had cut ties with his entourage and encouraged his wife to imitate him. He monitored her through tracking and eavesdropping phone apps and thought she was cheating on him, which wasn't true.
He kills his daughter out of jealousy: thirty years of imprisonment at the assizes of the Bas-Rhin https://t.co/OXndlmv940
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"Because of him, I am no longer a mother," denounced at the bar his companion, who had filed a civil party. For an aunt of the victim: "We, the family, we have taken perpetrate, we will never get up. "
