The 28-year-old woman, author of a fatal knife attack in 2019 in a squat in Perpignan, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for murder by the Pyrénées-Orientales Assize Court.
After two hours of deliberation, the popular jury followed the requisitions of the general counsel, Céline Straub.
During the three days of trial, the jurors and the court immersed themselves in the journey of this young woman faced with abandonment and violence from an early age.
A life of wandering during which Marjorie Maidou had been the victim of a gang rape by other homeless people a few months earlier.
The victim was about to change his life
But also in that of the victim, a man who had chosen to live on the margins of society, but remained close to his family.
36 years old, François Gonzalez was presented as a peaceful person.
He was preparing, according to his relatives, to change his life after having obtained the possibility of renting an apartment.
The accused had killed the victim, whom she nevertheless considered her friend, with a stab in the neck, on a background of drugs and alcohol.
The jurors considered the act voluntary.
The defense lawyers had asked, in vain, for the facts to be reclassified as intentional violence resulting in death.
In addition to the twelve years of imprisonment, the court condemned the young woman to a socio-judicial follow-up for five years and the prohibition to hold a weapon for ten years.
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