Decognized guilty of assassination by the court of Ajaccio, Bruno Garcia-Cruciani was also the subject of a “total withdrawal of parental authority” on his two sons of 12 and 14 years old, that he had had with Julie Douib, whose murder had aroused a wave of indignation in France.
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The verdict is the same as that pronounced at first instance: the Corsican-du-Sud Appeal Court condemned, Friday, January 27, Bruno Garcia-Cruciani to life imprisonment for murder, In 2019, of her ex-partner and mother of her children, Julie Douib.
“The Court condemns you with a majority of eight votes at least to life imprisonment with 22-year-old safety sentence,” the president told Bruno Garcia-Cruciani.
Decognized guilty of assassination, this 46 -year -old man was also the subject of a “total withdrawal of parental authority” on his two sons of 12 and 14 years old, whom he had with Julie Douib , killed at the age of 34, the court believing that he “favors his interest in that of his children”. Mr. Garcia-Cruciani is also ordered to pay 10,000 euros to the Douib family. He has five days to appeal to cassation.
“Pure and simple execution”
At the statement of the verdict, the one who had pronounced excuse words before the jurors leave to deliberate has remained imperturbable in the box. The Douib family has let its relief dawn.
For Jordan Douib, Julie’s brother, these decisions “give children the right to choose”. “It will save suffering to my parents, they will be able to focus on these children,” he told the media. “They will finally be able to say phew!” Said, relieved, Violetta Douib, Julie’s mother.
This condemnation corresponds to the requisitions of Catherine Levy, the lawyer general, and to the first instance verdict. “It is a pure and simple execution”, had hammered the magistrate, recalling that he “tracked down” the young woman of 34 years before killing her by ball on March 3, 2019 at the Ile Rousse, in Corsica. “The mere fact of running at someone’s door with a loaded weapon is premeditation,” she also insisted.
In defense, m e gilles antomarchi and m e Jean-Paul eon denied premeditation, defending the thesis of a first accidental shot while conceding a second Voluntary shot but “no execution”. “I did not go to remove Julie’s life,” said the accused. As for the required perpetuity sentence, “it is the sentence of serial killers”, indignant at e antomarchi.
The lawyer general recalled the death threats made by the accused during her detention after the death of Julie Douib, against friends of the young woman, a sports coach she frequented and her father. “Nothing stops it, even in detention,” summed up M me levy.
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for his lawyers, his violence was attributable to his consumption of steroid anabolizers. They asked the jurors, in vain, to retain “an abolition of discernment”.
“I ask forgiveness”
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é> francesca Seatelli, lawyer for the couple’s two sons, called the court to “protect them from their father”, describing boys “terrified to the idea that their father sort of prison and come to get them. ” Bruno Garcia-Cruciani, “a dangerous man”, “constantly used” his children “as an owner” and made them “perpetuity of the sons of Assassin, forever orphans”, she said .
“I would like to have a word for Julie,” said Bruno Garcia-Cruciani on Friday evening before the yard retired. “I removed Julie’s life”, “The mother of my children” and “I ask forgiveness”, “I apologize”. He also “asked forgiveness from the Douib family”. As for his children, he said to the court: “I will never leave them”.
This trial of a “feminicide who has become a symbol” has shown, according to one of the lawyers for the Douib family, Jean-Sébastien de Casalta, a “life thief” accused, “dream thief”, “Thief of Love “.
Social electrochoc, this crime, the thirtieth female out of 149 in 2019 in France, had led to the organization by the government of a “Grenelle” on violence against women.