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Antena 3 has announced that it will broadcast the television movie 'Jacqueline Sauvage, victim or guilty?', Which reconstructs the case of the woman who
in 2012 killed her husband with three shots in the back, after suffering ill-treatment for 47 years
, as he later argued during the murder trial.
The broadcast of the docudrama will be accompanied by a special program
presented by Mónica Carrillo
.
The television network is promoting it as "a true story that crossed borders and moved half the world," as well as "a television event [sic] that moved a country, with more than eight million viewers."
Sauvage's case was especially significant, as she was sentenced twice to ten years in prison in 2014, sparking a chain of protests that prompted
President François Hollande to pardon her in 2016.
The judicial process revolved around questions about legitimate defense or the absence of complaints by the woman towards her husband.
It was also learned that 48 hours before Jacqueline shot her husband
the only son of the marriage (they had three other daughters) committed suicide by hanging himself
.
The popular reaction against the sentences reappropriated the "Je suis" of the attack against 'Charlie Hebdo' and celebrated the pardon by the socialist president after he met with the three daughters of Sauvage, who
presented him with thousands of signatures in favor of his mother.
However, there were also those who questioned the way in which events unfolded. This is the case of the magazine 'Causeur', founded by the Jewish philosopher
Alain Finkielkraut
, who in a 2018 article stated the following: "This woman was tried and sentenced twice to 10 years in criminal prison, by six judges (three in tried and three on appeal) and 15 jurors (six in first instance, nine on appeal). Her appeals and parole were dismissed. And yet, all of France considers her only a victim, to the point of obtaining her pardon. ".
The Causeur text, signed by Gil Mihaley, asked: "How could the gap between justice and public opinion become so wide?"
And he replied: "It was the media coverage of the matter in an unprecedented way, through the internet and social networks, which allowed the
rewriting of a painful and complex story in a Manichean fable
. Sauvage, a weak and strong woman, submissive and bossy, self-sufficient and dependent on her marital relationship, she killed her husband at least three and a half hours after he beat her. "
This hypothesis is supported by the work of journalists
Hélène Mathieu and Daniel Grandclément
, who in 2017 published a book on the murder.
According to the Antena 3 press release, "Sauvage thus became a symbol of sexist violence and of those who requested that the mistreatment be considered as a reason for legitimate defense, a mitigating factor that was not taken into account in his trial" .
Even a philosopher like the former communist and philoanarchist
Michel Onfray
condemned Hollande's pardon, since, according to him, it opened the melon of the justification of self-defense, giving rise to personal revenge over judicial decisions.
Robert Redeker
also
described the presidential pardon in an article as "an insult to democracy motivated by a victimizing ideology."
Jacqueline Sauvage died on July 23 last year
, at the age of 72, at her residence in La Selle-sur-le-Bied (Loire Valley), the same one where she lived with her husband.
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