The feminicide of Julie Douib, in March 2019, had triggered a vast mobilization against violence against women in France.

And the trial that followed, media coverage at all times.

At the opening of the appeal trial in Ajaccio, the suspect, Bruno Garcia-Cruciani, believes that he did not have "a fair and equitable trial due to the overmediatization of my case".

Bruno Garcia-Cruciani, 46, shaved head, dressed in blue jeans and a jacket, appeared before the Assize Court of Appeal until next Friday.

He faces life imprisonment, a sentence to which he was sentenced at first instance, accompanied by a security period of 22 years and the deprivation of his parental authority.

The couple's sons do not attend the trial

"The most important thing is my children, it's been four years since I've heard from him," he added, saying that "it's very hard, harder than being locked up".

"Certainly, by my gesture, they will no longer hear their mother's voice", he acknowledged, but "I will never leave my children, I will never abandon my children", he hammered .

During the investigation, the accused admitted to having come to the home of his ex-companion, with whom he had two sons and from whom he had been separated since September 2018, and to have shot him before surrendering to the gendarmes.

But "I do not recognize that I went there to kill Julie," he also said, denying any premeditation.



Lucien and Violetta Douib, the parents of Julie Douib as well as the victim's brother, Jordan, are civil parties.

"Unfortunately we have to go through it but it's exhausting to hear again what he did to Julie and her children", regrets Lucien Douib.

The couple's sons, now 12 and 14, are not attending the trial.

“They are worried that one day he will come out and take them back,” he adds.

“The first conviction had clarified the future for them, but now they are afraid,” admits Jordan, Julie's brother.

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