Geneva court sentences 25-year-old girlfriend to murder
A 25-year-old man who killed his girlfriend with a knife in Chêne-Bourg GE in December 2019 has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. The Geneva Criminal Court convicted him of murder. The accused had denied the crime and claimed that his girlfriend had committed suicide.
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The court found it proven that the defendant killed his girlfriend with a kitchen knife in the couple’s apartment. He noticed that his girlfriend was slipping away and he no longer had control over her. When he discovered love messages from another man on his girlfriend’s mobile phone, he lost his nerve driven by jealousy. A neighbor heard an argument at that time.
During the court hearing, the accused protested that he had nothing to do with his girlfriend’s death. He explained that his girlfriend stabbed herself in the heart with the knife. “It all happens very quickly,” he claimed in court, without going into detail about the questions from the court presidency.
The man stated that he had had dark thoughts that evening. He testified that when his girlfriend returned from a tiring evening at friends’ house, she said to him, “Don’t do anything stupid or I’ll do it.” D she then took a knife that was lying next to the bed and rammed it into her chest.
He then removed the knife from the wound “without thinking” and pressed a pillow over the wound to stop the bleeding, the accused went on to explain. Then he kissed her.
Didn’t call an ambulance
When asked why he didn’t call the ambulance immediately, the accused said: “I reacted wrongly, I was shocked and devastated.”
Then he left the apartment and called his sister. Almost a quarter of an hour later, when he returned to his apartment, he alerted the emergency number 144, and there follows through a heart massage under the guidance of an emergency call worker. But it was too late.
The victim’s family and friends also described the defendant as jealous, possessive and controlling, the judge noted. “I do not understand that. I always let her do what she wanted,” the man replied.
The young couple met in the summer of 2015 in southern France, where the victim lived at the time. He was 17 at the time and she was 16. They meet on the weekends and during the holidays. She finally moved to the canton of Geneva in September 2019 to live with her partner, who was unemployed at the time. The relationship was marked by disputes.
In November 2019, the young woman went to Burgundy with two friends for a weekend without her partner. The partner left a voice message on a friend’s phone threatening his girlfriend. After hearing the message played in the courtroom, he admitted: “It’s true, I was upset, but only because the four of us wanted to leave.” (sda)
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