Overview

• The Basse‑Terre assize court imposed a 30‑year term with a 20‑year security period for the killing of Angélique Chauviré in 2006.
• Judges cited concordant witness accounts indicating Fortune was the last person seen with the victim around 2:30 p.m. on May 31, 2006.
• The victim’s body was found on the Dutch side of the island; traces of sexual violence were noted, but rape was not included in the indictment, which the prosecutor lamented.
• A retired French gendarme criticized Dutch‑side forensic work, pointing to absent DNA testing and mishandled or uncollected evidence, including a blood‑stained stone.
• Fortune, who received a life sentence last week for a separate double murder and is now convicted in France and the Netherlands for six homicides, will remain in Guadeloupe at least two weeks before returning to a high‑security Dutch prison as his defense files an appeal.