“I am guilty, I deserve the sentence that will be given to me.

Judged since Wednesday by the Gard Assize Court for the murder of a three-year-old child, Martin Barison, a 30-year-old former legionnaire, will therefore spend his life in prison.

In court, he admitted to having punched and kicked little Ethan, one of the two sons of the woman who had been his partner for seven months and who had entrusted him with the custody of her children for seven months, with a hundred punches and kicks. She was going out with friends.

During the investigation, Martin Barison presented several versions of the facts and accused his "girlfriend" of being responsible for the death of his son.

She will spend a year in pre-trial detention before being completely cleared by the courts.

Before the Assize Court, he ended up confessing, explaining that he wanted to “take revenge” on his companion, the object of intense jealousy.

“I knew it was his favorite”

“I wanted to hurt her, and unfortunately Ethan was between us”.

“Ethan was watching television.

I exploded, punched him, kicked his stomach, threw him on the floor, he hit his head several times.

I knew it was his favorite (son).

He was in pain, he screamed, I didn't hear anything, I was beside myself, ”he explained.

The little boy was found dead in his bed the next morning, visibly the victim of multiple violence.

Thursday, the Advocate General, Willy Lubin, had demanded a sentence of 30 years of criminal imprisonment, accompanied by 20 years of security, towards the former soldier.

“Like you, I am shocked at what this three-year-old suffered that day.

Like you, I'm shocked that a neighbor hears her cries for forty minutes and doesn't intervene.

Like you, I am shocked that a child can die in silence”, said the representative of the public ministry.

“All the bodily regions of this child were affected by the extreme violence.

This kid was in agony, because the individual lesions could not lead to death, it is the addition of the traumas which are responsible for the death ", testified in a cathedral silence the head of the forensic medicine unit of the University Hospital of Nimes, Dr. Mounir Benslima.

The life sentence was accompanied by an 18-year security sentence.

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