Nicolas Havez, drunk that night, beat his concubine Candice Monin on January 30 in 2018 in their apartment in Limoux. The Assize Court of Aude sentenced him Friday to murder to 22 years of criminal imprisonment. While forensic experts had identified multiple traces of beatings on the body of the victim, the accused, a 35-year-old unemployed man, once again tried to evade the hearing, recognizing only "a slap".
During the trial, which took place in Carcassonne, his lawyer tried in vain to have the facts reclassified as "willful violence resulting in death without intention to give it". For the civil party and the Advocate General, and therefore also the Court, Nicolas Havez had the will to kill.
"A man who wanted to hide the truth"
"The medical reports contradict the slap or two slaps he admitted to giving. We found about fifty traces, abrasions, bruises, hematomas, on the body of Candice Monin. When you don't want to kill, you don't target vital areas, ”thundered the Advocate General in her closing statement.
“We are also facing a man who wanted to hide the truth. He hid the violence. He gives explanations that do not make sense, and the more you put him face to face with his contradictions, the more black holes he has, ”denounced general counsel Sylvie Girerd, who had required 25 years.
To request, and obtain, the forfeiture of parental authority of the accused, Alexandra Vitrac, lawyer for the civil party, pleaded that the couple's child, 4 years old today, present on the evening of the drama in the apartment, had been traumatized. According to another lawyer for the plaintiff, Nicolas Havez had led his partner in a spiral of "homelessness", against a background of alcohol and narcotic consumption.
A daily argument
Thursday in Carcassonne, during the first of the two days of the trial, the couple's neighbors, testified and described at the helm a daily of arguments, shouts and insults, claiming to have "lived through hell" during the three years that 'They had the Monin-Havez as neighbors. "When I arrive in the bedroom, she is sitting on the bed. It is possible that I grabbed her by the neck or by the hair to raise her. I slapped her and she fell immediately, ”said Nicolas Havez at the hearing.
The accused, 35, had already been sentenced in 2013 for driving under the influence of drugs and for meeting violence. When the president of the assize court gave him the last word, Nicolas Havez addressed the Monin family: "I cannot ask for forgiveness because it would be inappropriate, but I regret what happened past ".
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