Four years after the death of Shaïna, a 13-year-old girl already the victim of sexual assault, the murder trial opens this Monday, June 5 at the assize court for minors in the Oise. Back to the case.
Shaina’s ordeal had shocked France. In October 2019, the 15-year-old girl was found stabbed and burned alive in Creil, Oise. Four years after the facts, the trial for the assassination of the young girl opens, this Monday, June 5, 2023, at the Assize Court for minors. The main suspect is none other than Shaina’s then-boyfriend who was 17 years old at the time of the incident.
This trial, the second in the Shaïna case, is the first to relate to the death of the teenager. It must be held behind closed doors, given the minority of the accused at the time of the facts, and last five days. A week that Shaïna Hansye’s parents fear, especially since the accused young man still denies having killed his ex-girlfriend despite the elements and testimonies that incriminate him.
Death, sexual assault… What happened to Shaïna?
Found dead in a burnt garden shed and located a few steps from the building in which she lived, in Creil, Shaïna was murdered by several stab wounds before being burned alive while she was pregnant. The boyfriend that the girl had at the time is suspected of being the perpetrator of the crime and the pregnancy, a priori unforeseen, could have been the motivation for the assassination according to the elements collected by the police investigators during investigations. According to the presumed sequence of events, the young man would have made an appointment with Shaïna in this shed, in which he would have previously hidden a knife, to assassinate her. For his part, the accused firmly denies being behind the murder of the teenager.
Shaïna had been the victim of other assaults the two years preceding her death. The teenager’s ordeal began in 2017, when she was 13 years old. The girl had been blackmailed by her previous boyfriend who had an intimate photo of her. Forced to grant sexual favors to the young man to prevent the dissemination of the cliché, Shaïna had refused to give in to the threat, but had been trapped and sexually assaulted by her boyfriend and two friends of the latter, respectively aged 16. and 17 years old. The teenager’s rape had been filmed and broadcast on social networks.
After this attack, the young girl had filed a complaint with the police and changed college, but suffered from a reputation of “easy girl” after the dissemination of the aforementioned images and videos. In addition to being insulted, Shaïna continued to be harassed by her attackers, who were kept at a distance for a year by distancing measures until May 2019, when the young girl was beaten up by her ex-boyfriend. friend and four other people. Six months later, the teenager would have been this time the victim of her new boyfriend.
Who is the accused in the Shaina death case?
The 15-year-old girl has had several executioners, but the individual suspected of being her assassin is the boyfriend she had been dating for a few weeks before her death. The accused was then 17 years old and would have been interested in the young girl for her reputation as an “easy girl”, writes The chained Duck. Now 21, the young man continues to deny the charges against him. Placed in pre-trial detention, he would however have been prolific with his fellow prisoners – and his friends before being imprisoned – on the murder of Shaïna. “I prefer to take thirty years than to be the father of a bastard” would have declared the defendant in prison adding to have “killed his girlfriend who was a whore whom he had impregnated”, reports The Parisian. Wrongly made denunciations in the context of conflicts between detainees according to the defendant’s lawyer, Me Arfi.
The testimonies will be crucial during the trial of Shaïna’s assassination, but the two parties are also counting on the elements clarified by the investigation, some of which incriminate the accused: a vague schedule to which the man would have returned, inconsistent statements during the hearings, burn marks on his legs during his arrest and traces of blood on these shoes noticed by a witness. “But no material evidence links him to this crime,” replies the defense lawyer to the Ile-de-France newspaper.
What does the accused risk at the trial on Shaina’s death?
The trial on the assassination of Shaïna must rule on the guilt of the accused. The 21-year-old faces twenty years in prison, but life imprisonment could also be required if the assize court decides not to take into consideration the minority of the accused at the time of the facts.
Already convictions in the Shaïna case
The Shaïna affair is such that three investigations have been or are still being carried out by the courts. A first trial was held on January 31 and February 1, 2022 at the Senlis Criminal Court to judge the perpetrators of the sexual assaults committed on Shaïna in 2017. After the appeal lodged by the Senlis prosecutor, the four defendants were sentenced ranging from 6 months suspended prison sentence to 2 years suspended prison sentence, a decision rendered on June 1, 2023.
The trial for Shaïna’s murder is a new stage in the legal journey of the teenager’s family, which is not ready to end. According to the verdict of the assize trial, normally delivered on Friday, June 9, recourse to an appeal by one of the parties is possible. Above all, a third investigation is underway with a view to a new trial, this time relating to acts of “aggravated violence”, “theft” and “threats” committed against Shaïna.