She was 27 years old and her heart on her sleeve.
The Assize Court of Seine-Saint-Denis sentenced this Friday to 20 years of criminal imprisonment the ex-companion of Audrey Coignard, a medical student, for having killed her with twenty stab wounds in Saint-Ouen in 2019.
After three hours of deliberation, the court recognized Rifat Abbas, now 34, Sudanese, guilty of the murder of the young woman in September 2019, with the aggravating circumstance of having been her partner.
The Advocate General had requested 30 years in prison this Friday morning.
“Mr. Abbas did not kill her because he loved her.
He killed her because he was losing his position, ”said this magistrate, Bertrand Macle.
“She brought good”
Very invested in helping migrants, it is through this that the intern of the Jean-Verdier hospital in Bondy from Normandy had met the accused.
The couple had maintained a relationship which she had put an end to a few months before the tragedy.
She continued to host her ex-companion, in an irregular situation, but had asked him to return the keys to her on the evening of his death.
"The help she gave (to migrants) turned into friendship and we respected her for that", testified one of the migrants to whom she had come to help and now close to the family.
“She brought good to others so she did not see why we would hurt her”, reported Wednesday at the bar the mother of the victim, a civil party alongside other family members.
Throughout the trial, portraits of Audrey Coignard faced the court.
"Strong, sensitive, gentle, protective"
“Very proud” of his daughter, the father, a former farmer, praised her “physical and mental strength” and her “passionate” character.
She was "a woman who had confidence in people and did not want to give in to fear of the unknown", summed up her older sister and confidante, pregnant at the time of the events, who confides to having "been unable" since the death of his sister to return to his work.
"Strong, sensitive, gentle, protective", "with an incredible sense of friendship" and "full fulfillment" in her work: this is the portrait drawn at the bar by a close friend of the victim who seen two days before his death.
Reconstructing the last moments of the young female medical student and understanding what prompted the accused to take action were at the heart of the trial.
A prostrate defendant
Rifat Abbas, with an "immature" personality according to the various parties, maintained a prostrate attitude during the four days of hearing.
"That she was an angel does not make him the devil", defended his lawyer Me Chloé Arnoux.
In her argument, she called on the court to judge her client on the basis of his "miserable" life and the trauma suffered during his chaotic migratory journey through Libya where he was tortured.
Claiming to have few memories of the facts, Rifat Abbas admitted during his interrogation on Thursday to have "stabbed" the victim, "to silence her".
“I was afraid the neighbors would hear and the police would come,” he said.
He did not give any additional explanation for his murderous gesture, apologizing several times to the family.
The trial has "freed from a weight" the family, said moved the father of Audrey Coignard: even if "it may not be enough, we are moving forward".
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