At the end of a two-day trial, the 47-year-old defendant was spared a life sentence, with jurors upholding his change of reasoning. “I wanted him to be treated as a human being in court. Although his actions were brutal because of his pathological condition, he was not a monster,” said his lawyer, Me Clement Pialat.
The lawyer provoked his client’s pathological jealousy, which, according to him, was a paranoid syndrome pushed to its extreme. In December 2020, in Ostwald, a suburb of Strasbourg, the father of the family was found murdered in his bed before reporting his daughter to his partner and the police.
According to the latest news from the Alsace daily, the man, who did not want to work, cut ties with those around him and encouraged his wife to follow him. He was monitoring her through phone tracing and listening apps and thought she was cheating on him, which was not true.
“Because of him, I’m no longer a mother,” denounced her companion, Baril, who filed the civil action. “We, the family, we took our lives and we will never wake up,” said the victim’s aunt.
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