Murder in Caen: “a normal man” sentenced “for a monstrous act”
Through Christophe Jaquet
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In front, there Court of Assizes of Calvados, the trial for murder of nicole Junqua, the murdered teacher in Caen 3 years ago, ended this Wednesday, January 25, 2023. This, after three days of hearing, largely given to understand the hermetic personality of the accuseda 63-year-old man, and what explained such an outburst of violence about his company.
After 2 hours of deliberation, the Court of Assizes and the 7 jurors still present at the hearing sentenced him to a 25-year prison sentenceaccompanied bya security period of 16 years. This one is already detained at 13 years old, the convict having just spent 3 years on remand.
“Not known to justice”
The Court did not follow the requisitions pronounced a little earlier this Wednesday by the general counsel, Me Ilham Soummer. At the beginning of her indictment, she made a point of specifying it:
[L’accusé] is not a monster, but a normal man who has perpetrated a monstrous act.
For her, “the suffering of the relatives of the victim are also those of our sick society. violent acts perpetrated against women“. And Nicole Junqua is the subject of a “despicable murder”, “perpetrated by her, because she is the wife of”.
According to the magistrate, the homicidal intent was characterized “by the way he stabbed”, by this blow to the neck – a vital area – “by lethal weapon”, and also by his behavior after the murder:
He checked that the objective was reached, he takes his pulse, crosses his hands on the chest of the victim, and goes to get a sheet like a shroud to cover him.
For this, the defendant encourages life imprisonment. She a required a 30-year prison sentencetaking into consideration that it is not ” not known to justice“, and has “no criminal record”.
It associated it with a security period of 20 years, with socio-judicial follow-up for 7 years, with obligation of care and prohibition of contact with the entire family of the victim, including children.
“His age” considered
The Court of Assizes did not go that far. According to President Jeanne Cheenne, “the entire crime scene demonstrates the particularly strong determination of the accused, who “did not never stopped’ hittinguntil the death of his company.
She recalls, “the bond of concubinage aggravates the crime of murder”. But, among other reasons, “the Court and the jurors were kept in mind the state of great psychological distress of the detainee, son “state of great emotional dependence » vis-à-vis his spouse, and « his age » to measure the pain.
A “message to society”
In the morning, in her argument, the lawyer for the civil parties, Me Aline Lebret, warned the jurors. “You will not be able to decide on a sanction proportionate to the suffering of children and family by Nicole Junqua. “What they went through is unquantifiable. But she slams it: “You’re going to spend a educational message to society. »
This message has already been carried a little earlier, when Elsa *, the daughter of the couple destroyed by the murder, spoke again. The political science student affirmed it: the murder of her mother is “not not an isolated problemit is a social problem in France, feminicides”.
From this trial, I expect an example for all the women killed by men unable to accept being told no, frustration.
Elsa says it, she has too” lost [son] father, who died at this time“. Before concluding: “My mother was a feminist, it helped me a lot, but it is not because we are feminist that we do not suffer from violence. »
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