her husband sentenced to life imprisonment

This Friday, March 28, the public prosecutor requested life imprisonment, accompanied by a 22 -year -old security period against Mounir B., found guilty of having burned his wife Chahinez Daoud on May 4, 2021 in Mérignac. The verdict was returned on Friday. His condemnation follows the requisitions of the public prosecutor. After shooting him two balls in his thighs, he had sprayed it with petrol before lighting the fire. The investigation reappeared the accusation in “assassination”, a murder with premeditation.

Mounir B. admitted to having killed his wife, who had asked for the divorce, but assured that this murder was not wanted or prepared. He explained that he wanted to “scare him from his life”, trying to “burn her” to “leave her traces”. He said he wanted her to “ask for forgiveness” for his infidelity, which the investigators found no evidence during the investigation. He also advanced during the trial that his wife had manipulated him to leave Algeria and settle in France, and that she had wrongly condemned him for domestic violence.

However, certain elements questioned a possible premeditation. The Assisi Court passed Tuesday, March 25, reviews the elements supporting this theory, as BFMTV reports. During his arrest, the police found two lighters, one of which was knotted in a white fabric, as if to make a wick. He had also recently bought a vehicle with which he parked in front of his wife’s home on the day of the tragedy. This van, which his wife could not have recognized, was arranged with boxes with eyelets to observe outside without being seen. A container was also filled with five liters of mower essence. To the question on the moment when he came the idea of ​​attacking his wife, Mounir B. had spontaneously answered “Friday”, four days before the drama and corresponding to the day of purchase of the van. The premeditation has been retained.

A “mission” and a “sequenced death”

The police who arrested him also noted some elements supporting this thesis in the accused’s behavior. A bin policeman assured at the helm that on the day of the facts Mounir B. was relatively “calm”. “He seemed to me reflected, master of him. Including when he told us about his mission: killing his wife. He repeated that he did what he had planned to do,” said the latter, who assures that the accused did indeed have a plan.

On the course of the murder, an expert legistist also described a “sequenced killing methodology” and not “an opportunistic action”. “First there is a desire to leave her alive after having shot her. She can no longer get up, she is at the mercy of the author. It is at this point that he pours the liquid and sets her fire. We can speak of organized character,” he explained. Mounir B. was thus declared “aware” of his act, made in “a paranoid delirium”. “The act was so organized that Mounir B. was aware of what he achieved,” said a psychiatrist.