Photos at the limit of sustainable were broadcast on Monday in Bourg-en-Bresse, on the first day of the appeal trial of a young woman who killed her 95-year-old grandfather, completely grabatory.
Photos at the limit of sustainable. The images of the half-charred corpse of a 95-year-old man, lying in a fetal position in a blackened bed, were broadcast this Monday in Bourg-en-Bresse on the first day of the appeal trial of a young woman who killed her totally grabatory grandfather, burning him alive. Faced with these shots, Émilie G., 33, has been folded over on herself, looking away, a hand in front of her eyes. Sentenced to five years in prison suspended at first instance this winter in Lyon, she always said that she had acted “For love”to relieve the suffering of the old man, to whom she was very attached.
In August 2020, the ancestor was found dead burned and asphyxiated in his medical bed with one of his daughters, in Saint-Laurent-de-Mure (Rhône). Placed in police custody two months after the facts, Émilie G. had first denied all responsibility, hoping that the thesis of the accident would be retained, before admitting to having triggered the fire. “It almost walked, the accident thesis?”asks the Advocate General Éric Mazaud to the head of investigation heard on Monday. «Oui»replies the witness, “The elements could have suggested an accident”before fuel was found on bedding.
On the bench, the accused melted regularly in tears at the mention of this grandfather, to whom she was very attached. During his first trial, in October before the Assises du Rhône, the Advocate General had castigated a “Cruel and selfish act” from a woman who was looking for him to “Exorcise his frustration, his multiple failures”. He had asked the jurors to sentence her to fifteen years in prison but the latter had chosen the leniency, taking into account “The alteration of discernment” and “Difficulties” from the granddaughter, facing a loved one “At the end of life”. The prosecution called on the verdict, sending off Emilie G. before the Ain Assize Court where it is tried until Wednesday for assassination and risks life imprisonment.
“Not a militant position” on the end of life
At the helm, a personality investigator emphasizes that at the time of the facts, the young woman suffered from “Psychological difficulties” : lack of authority with her children, adultery of his spouse, failures at the CAPES, the professor competition, to which is added the state “Degraded” of his grandfather, equipped with a urinary probe. The accused took care of her elder daily but had reduced her visits during the summer of the facts after having one day found him in a state “deplorable” With his parents, the dirty layer. “The dignity of her grandfather was not respected, it had been a highlight for her”explains the investigator.
On the morning of the crime, his spouse revealed to him that he had deceived it, triggering the act. According to the psychiatric expertise attached to the instruction, it was in a “Dissociative state” When she poured gasoline on the mattress. “A specific meticulous spill”according to a fire expert heard as a witness, for whom the young woman could not ignore the consequences of her actions. “Fire is systematically used to destroy, to make disappear”. The grandfather, trapped, agonized for a few minutes and died of the inhalation of smoke and deep burns.
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“It’s a gesture of love”nevertheless hammered Monday before the hearing the accused’s lawyer,e Thibaud Claus, evoking a “Case of euthanasia of a family who did as they could in front of a desperate situation, with not necessarily the right solutions”. While the Parliament debates a new legislation on aid to die, “We are absolutely not in a militant position today”he added. “She faced as she could a dramatic situation.”
Lawyer has “A conscience” that the prosecutor “Would like a heavier penalty” that at first instance. But “I believe that we all agree on it, even on the side of the public prosecutor: the link between this granddaughter and her grandfather is extremely fusional”he added. According to him, there was “No antagonism” Between the two, “No debt, no inheritance”which the investigators confirmed at the hearing.
