Overview
- A court in Auch convicted the 76-year-old and gave him 30 years' reclusion criminelle with 15 years of sûreté on Thursday.
- The victim was run over twice in Préchac-sur-Adour on August 3, 2023, and the attacker then fled to Galiax where he attempted to shoot himself and was hospitalised.
- The woman had filed a main courante with the Marciac gendarmerie on June 18, 2023, reporting repeated death threats and the man was briefly placed in custody on July 31 before receiving a convocation for a composition pénale.
- Civil-party lawyer Fabien Arakelian called the case a 'chronicle of an announced femicide' and blamed the short custody and the later composition pénale for failing to prevent the killing.
- The public prosecutor had sought 30 years with 20 years of sûreté while the defence argued the sentence was disproportionate given the defendant's age, a dispute that may shape appeals and reviews of local procedures.