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Court Hands 23-Year Sentence to Man in 2019 Killing Over Friend’s Suicide

Judges concluded the attack was motivated by grief over the victim’s son’s 2015 suicide after reviewing evidence of premeditation.

L’avocat général avait pour sa part requis une peine de 25 ans de réclusion criminelle, jugeant la préméditation «évidente».
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Overview

  • The Cour d’assises des Landes in Mont-de-Marsan rendered its verdict on June 18 after a three-day trial.
  • Samuel Matias Batista was sentenced to 23 years of criminal detention, below the 25-year term requested by prosecutor Marc Mariée.
  • Prosecutors presented evidence of premeditation, citing messages Batista sent declaring he had “someone to kill” and the procurement of a knife.
  • The defense argued Batista acted on an emotional need to confront Guy Lecomte over his friend Danaël’s suicide.
  • Witnesses detailed how Batista stabbed Lecomte 32 times in Commensacq in September 2019.