Overview

• The Cour d'assises de Basse-Terre imposed a 30-year term with a 20-year period of sûreté for the killing of Angélique Chauviré, delivered Wednesday night under high security.
• Judges cited the extreme violence of the crime and concordant witness accounts placing Fortune as the last person to see the victim alive on May 31, 2006.
• Chauviré’s body was found two days later on the Dutch side of the island, with prosecutors noting missed forensic steps such as absent DNA testing and mishandled potential evidence.
• The verdict follows a life sentence handed down last week for the murders of Jomo Maynard and Gilbert Hyman, bringing Fortune’s total convictions in France and the Netherlands to six homicides.
• Authorities say he will remain in Guadeloupe for at least two weeks to preserve appeal rights before returning to a Dutch high-security prison, while Dutch cases still list him as a suspect in two additional killings.