The day before, faced with the accumulation of evidence, he had confessed to his crime.
Thirty years in prison, including twenty years of security sentence, were requested on Friday against Jonathan Boillet, tried before the Pas-de-Calais Assizes for the murder of his partner Sandy Cucheval, burned alive in 2020 when she wanted him to leave.
“There is no other explanation, he voluntarily killed Sandy Cucheval,” said the attorney general, Xavier Alloy, also demanding that at the end of his incarceration, Jonathan Boillet be subjected for ten years to an obligation of care.
Jonathan Boillet, 36, has been on trial since Tuesday at the Pas-de-Calais Assizes for the murder in November 2020 of his partner Sandy Cucheval, burned alive at the age of 33 in the car where the couple was.
Confessions
This Thursday, on the third day of the trial, Jonathan Boillet ended up abandoning the accident theory, to the mixed relief of the victim's family, who continues to demand "the truth".
Admitted to the burns unit of Lille hospital, she died there a week later.
“For years I made assumptions.
But according to the experts, there is no photo, it’s really me,” he replied in a neutral tone to the president who had just asked him if he wanted to change his version.
This invites him to clarify his thoughts.
“I really have a blackout,” he maintains, claiming to have woken up at the time of the explosion.
But “it was really me who doused her with gasoline, you can’t say otherwise.”
Until this Thursday, Jonathan Boillet pleaded the accident, claiming to have lit a cigarette which would have set a poorly closed gasoline can on fire.
A thesis contradicted by experts, according to whom Sandy Cucheval's clothes were soaked in gasoline.
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On average, a feminicide occurs every three days in France.
The Ministry of Justice counted 94 feminicides in 2023.