Trial in Neuchâtel
Attempted feminicide: a mother had been burned long
The victim, seriously injured in 2022, survived. His ex-rejected companion would have asked two accomplices to immolate him. He risks 17 years in prison.
*Roberto, the alleged sponsor of this attempt at feminicide, at the entrance to the court room in Neuchâtel. He has been in prison since 2022.
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- At the trial in Neuchâtel, the main accused continues to defend his innocence.
- He is accused of having asked two accomplices to immolate his ex-partner.
- The prosecutor requires 17 years in prison against the alleged sponsor.
- One of the two accomplices, also tried in Neuchâtel, risks 14 years in prison.
Monday criminal trial on Monday in Neuchâtel. A few days after the announcement of yet another female In Soleure, a survivor faced the court his alleged executioner, Roberto*, an ex-companion who did not support the breakup at the court. He is accused of having asked two accomplices to immolate the fifties in exchange for 5,000 francs. The latter tense him ambush In front of her house, one evening in October 2022, spraying her with petrol and setting fire to it. Burnt lived on a quarter of his body, the victim survived miraculously.
Trial in Neuchâtel
It is the intervention of one of his two children – from a previous relationship – which saved his life. “That evening, I thought I was going to die. I saw myself as a star riding in heaven, ”she told court. The mother still carries the stigma of her assault: Minerva on the neck, face marked by injuries. “The hardest part is these marks that I will have all my life,” she deplored. For the rest, she says she does not understand why the trio wanted her so much trouble.
The court tried to understand. For this, the president Bastien Sandoz put on the grill the main accused, also fifties, for more than two hours. Put under pressure, the sponsor suspected of the operation continued to deny the reproaches, as he has applied himself there since the start of the investigation. If he admits having attended those who have taken action, he could never have committed him. Besides, he was in his workplace at the time of the facts. “I am innocent,” he repeated. I’m really shocked by what happened. Like everyone else, ”he said with Aplomb.
Female attempt
But then why these two knowledge accuse him of having been the organizer of this attempt to female? “By simple revenge,” replied the defendant to the court. Cressing restorer (NE), he had taken the two Portuguese, alcoholics and drug addicts under his wing, who lived small jobs. After giving them money and a roof, Roberto says he refused to help them more. What they would not have accepted. They would then have turned against the ex-partner.
In an attempt to approach the truth, the debates then aligned the compromising evidence: the exchanges of explicit SMS, the images of the camera of a gas station which show it filling a can of petrol, the surveillance rounds around the victim’s parking lot. The interested party who refused to submit to a psychiatric expertise has an answer to everything, sometimes leaving to contradict himself or to return to some of his declarations. “You are a world champion,” replied the president. Do you realize that your version of the facts is impossible? ”
Complicated trial
The pleading of the prosecutor Manon Simeoni was of rare violence. “It is one of the most odious crimes that our canton has known in recent years.” According to her, this immolation project was “planned, designed and implemented” by Roberto, also accused of economic embezzlement linked to his profession. The magistrate was also not tender with one of the two accomplices present in the room that admitted and asked for forgiveness. The third thief was tried in Portugal. The prosecution requested 17 years in prison against the principal and 14 years in prison against the agent for attempted assassination. And the expulsion of the territory.
The miraculous lawyer, Alexandre Zen-Ruffinen, denounced the “aberrant strategy” of the restaurateur who was in a relationship with his client for less than two years. According to him, the mobile is “the jealousy»Of a dismissed patriarch who turned into a hitman. Possessive, apathetic and selfish, man used “lost” to scaffold a “cruel” plan, which “the intention of killing is undeniable”. The act would also have been matured at length: it would have taken several months to succeed, after several unsuccessful tests.
Loneliness and alcohol, at the heart of the trial
Loneliness and alcohol would be the two reasons for Roberto’s misfortunes, according to her lawyer Valérie Schweingruber. She tried to explain that her client was also drinking far too much at the time. He was not in his normal state, unfit for scaffolding a criminal action or even creating social ties strong enough to achieve it. In addition, according to her, categorical evidence is lacking in the file. Based on these doubts, she asked for acquittal or a decrease in sentence. Verdict of the trial Tuesday at 11 a.m.
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