Overview

• Emilie G., 33, was handed a five-year prison sentence with four years suspended and will spend one year under electronic tag after an appeal ruling on June 25.
• Prosecutors had appealed the initial suspended sentence and sought a 15-year jail term, deeming the original penalty too lenient.
• She admitted setting her bedridden 95-year-old grandfather’s mattress alight in August 2020, describing the act as an expression of love to relieve his suffering.
• A psychiatric report concluded she was in a dissociative state at the time of the killing, which experts said compromised her capacity to judge her actions.
• Judges acknowledged the victim’s exhaustion but found no explicit request for active euthanasia and condemned fire as an inhuman method of ending life.