suspected of having wanted to “sacrifice” their son in the Sahara, a couple of Girondins partly relaxed

RElaxes of the heaviest, guilty offense of the second. In addition, This July 17. Similarly, a couple of Girondins suspected of having wanted to “sacrifice” their child in the Sahara, in December 2023, was tried before the Criminal Court of Bordeaux. Nevertheless, They were prosecuted for “participation in an association of criminals in order to prepare the crime of murder on a minor of 15 years. Therefore, by organizing the departure towards the place of the sacrifice and by concealing their trip” and “subtraction by a parent to his legal obligations compromising the health, security, morality or education of the child”.

The court released them from the first offense because “the elements in the file do not allow it to be characterized. Furthermore, ” said President Sonia Silva. However. For example, they were declared guilty of the second, “the speeches held at the suspected having wanted “sacrifice” their time before your child having compromised his health, which you could not ignore,” said the magistrate.

The father. Therefore, 40, detained for a year and a half, was sentenced to eighteen months in prison with probationary stay with injunction of care. Similarly, The mother. For example, 32, under judicial supervision after three months of pre-trial detention, was sentenced to eighteen months in prison with a single stay. For example, The representative of the public prosecutor. Similarly, to the express indictment of about fifteen minutes, had asked for four years in prison against the mother and six years firm against the father.

“Mystical” words – Suspected having wanted "sacrifice" their

This affair broke out at the end of 2023. The couple. music teachers from Carcans on the Girondin coast, where they had opened a very popular associative school, was arrested on December 21 by the Guardia Civil, in the Spanish port of Algeciras, while they are about to embark suspected having wanted “sacrifice” their on a ferry for Morocco, with their 5 -year -old son.

The Spanish gendarmerie acts on the basis of a European arrest warrant issued by French justice. On December 19. the young woman’s sister alerted the authorities: a relative of the father contacted her, entrusting her concerns after welcoming the couple for an evening, in Hérault. The father made “mystical”. “delusional” remarks, explaining that he had “seen God”, that he would have entrusted him with the mission of being “his armed wing” for “the birth of a new religion” and that “many people were going to die”.

This loved one adds that he said before her. the mother who did not react “to believe that her son had a demon in him and that he thought he should sacrifice him in the desert so that he resuscitates as Jesus”.

The investigations reveal that the couple “a little on the sidelines”. “very close to suspected having wanted “sacrifice” their nature” and “very focused on their child” educated at home, had an old travel project in Morocco, but that the departure had been precipitated, surprising everyone. The couple left overnight aboard a pick-up bought the previous days and put their home sublet. The investigation also highlights a change in the father’s behavior. a month before departure, with worrying remarks and an episode of “delusional puff” having led him to be interned in psychiatry, after having walked naked in the forest.

“I understand that there were concerns”

“I understand that there were concerns. that the somewhat prophetic side of my spouse could have been afraid, that we had at the time alarmist beliefs, which I regret today. But I never wanted to hurt our child. I would never have followed my spouse if he had wanted it. I like my son more than anything in the world. ”says the little boy’s mother suspected having wanted “sacrifice” their before the court, placed with his grandparents since the arrest of his parents.

Auburn hair. long skirt, the young woman, who now lives in Brittany and works in tourism, speaks in a sustained and rational language that contrasts with that of her spouse.

Brown beard. dressed in black, he turns in a loop, explains the advanced start for Morocco because he “saw the evil in the eyes” of a neighbor and was taken from an “irrational fear”. On the road. he ordered his partner to throw their mobile phone and his little boy to swing his tablet and his comforter “because he clung to that than his mother”. “God speaks to me more than I speak to him. ” he said, hostile to the idea of taking care, despite the recommendations of the experts who examined him and noted in him “a borderline personality”, but neither danger or alteration of discernment.

“This file suspected having wanted “sacrifice” their is a mountain that gives birth to a mouse. The accusations are based on testimony, but that is not enough to characterize something other than anxiety. One cannot condemn in principle of precaution ”, pleads his lawyer, M^e Audrey Boussillon. “This case is an educational assistance file. no more,” adds the mother’s lawyer,^e Aurélie Filippi-Codaccioni, which also requires the release.

Before them. M^e Marlène Labadie, representing the ad hoc administrator appointed for the little boy, civil party, underlined “the clear inability” of the defendants “to make decisions in the interest of their child” and requested the withdrawal of parental authority. The court ordered the withdrawal of the exercise of parental authority for both parents.