At the trial of the assassination of Shaïna, her ex-boyfriend sentenced to 18 years of criminal imprisonment

The Assize Court for Minors in Oise sentenced Shaïna’s ex-boyfriend to 18 years’ imprisonment for the murder of this teenager, stabbed and burned alive at the age of 15 in 2019 in Creil, probably pregnant with him. ” For what ? For what ? “, reacted the accused, pale complexion, emerging beard and dark eyes, to the statement of the verdict, on the night of Friday June 9 to Saturday June 10, after four hours of deliberation. Then: “You are wrong!” I am innocent ! »

“18 years old!” This is justice in France! ”said Shaïna’s brother, Yasin, in tears. After tense discussions with the accused, he felt unwell, leading to a suspension of the hearing. He was taken to the hospital. With Agence France-Presse (AFP), Shaïna’s father said he was “disappointed with justice”. “Justice does not care about violence against women,” said Me Negar Haeri, the family’s lawyer. Between pre-trial detention and remissions, the accused ” comes out in eight years, ” she said.

This sentence, pronounced in a heavy atmosphere, is less than the requisitions of the Advocate General, Loïc Abrial, who had demanded 30 years of criminal imprisonment for a crime according to him “premeditated at every stage”. Mr. Abrial had requested the waiver of the excuse of minority of the accused, aged 17 at the time of the facts, which allows the maximum sentence to be increased from 20 to 30 years. But this was not upheld by the court.

The defendant’s lawyer, Me Elise Arfi, had described, after the requisitions, a man “petrified, terrified”, faced with the request for a sentence “longer than his whole life”. His second counsel, Me Adel Fares, had “pleaded for acquittal”. Throughout the closed-door trial, which opened on Monday, the young man, a high school student with no criminal record at the time, cried out his innocence. “I just want to be quiet,” he told the jurors in his final words, according to the attorney general. According to the civil parties, the psychiatric expert pointed out Thursday the lack of empathy and the narcissism of the young man, a portrait challenged by the defense.

Treated “like a thing”

Shaïna, who died at 15, had been the victim two years earlier in her city of sexual assault, the images of which had been broadcast online, exposing her, according to Me Haeri, to be treated “like a thing”. Four other young men were sentenced on June 1 on appeal for these facts to suspended sentences ranging from six months to two years in prison.

According to the investigation, Shaïna, described by her mother as “funny and smiling”, was probably starting a pregnancy, which she attributed to the accused. The latter may have been moved, according to the civil parties, by the fear of losing the love of his parents if he broke with their demands for perfection, against a background of religious prohibition around sexuality. “He was ready to destroy everything to save his image,” the attorney general ruled on Friday. “There is no connection to be made between the faith” of the accused and the crime judged, on the contrary swept Me Adel Fares.

Shaïna’s parents revolted, in court, against the reputation inflicted on their daughter and the portrait sketched by certain witnesses. In two years, Shaïna “has experienced all the gender violence”, pointed out Friday Me Zoé Royaux, spokesperson for the Women’s Foundation, civil party. In France, according to official figures, a woman dies every three days from the violence of her spouse or ex-spouse.

The hearings were marked by the reversal or absence of certain prosecution witnesses. A friend of the accused claimed to no longer remember seeing blood on his clothes the day after the incident. Two ex-convicts, according to whom the young man would have boasted of having killed so as not to endorse the paternity of a “bastard”, did not show up.

Not enough to weaken the case, for Me Haeri, for whom the guilt of the accused is based on “super objective” elements. His cell phone and that of Shaïna were notably “limited” shortly before the facts near the crime shed, and burns on the young man’s legs were confirmed by a medical expert.