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Code of Criminal Procedure.

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G. VARELA / 20 MINUTES

The Nancy Assize Court recognized a 31-year-old man "guilty of willful blow resulting in death without intention of giving it" while he was appearing for "intentional homicide", in accordance with the requisitions of Advocate General Hadrien Baron.

A sentence more lenient than the fifteen years of imprisonment claimed.

During the first trial in December 2019, before the assizes in Epinal, the Advocate General had requested the same requalification and required sixteen years of imprisonment.

Only this time the jurors had followed the thesis of the defense who had pleaded involuntary shooting and imposed a three-year prison sentence.

The general prosecutor's office had appealed.

An 18-year-old victim

As a reminder, a young woman of 18, Laura Randour, affected in the lung, had died shortly after the shooting.

The facts took place at the end of August 2017 in Rambervillers in the Vosges, against a background of alcohol and drugs.

While the accused, 28 years old, had gone to a friend's home for a fishing trip, the accused, a big lover of weapons, had brought his air rifle and was having fun shooting targets.

In the afternoon, his companion had arrived and an argument had broken out in the couple, the young woman reproaching her companion, "of drinking too much" when the fatal shot was gone.

The 30-something has always claimed that the shot was accidental.

First he explained that he shot into the wall and hit his partner by "ricochet".

He later explained that the shot was fired when he picked up the gun carelessly and had to pull the trigger unintentionally.

His host, the only person present, first placed under the status of assisted witness before being dismissed, saw nothing and was too drunk to remember.

The ballistics expert, he did not speak for one thesis or another.

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