Overview

• Jurors retired to deliberate after the closing arguments concluded on Thursday at the Cour d'assises de Paris.
• Questioned by the court about his actions, Arnaud Bonnefoy acknowledged that he intended to kill Amanda Glain.
• Avocate générale Inès Bordet asked for 28 years of réclusion criminelle with a two-thirds période de sûreté and urged caution toward the defendant’s expressions of remorse.
• Defense lawyer David Apelbaum called the request “delirious” and argued that a term exceeding twenty years would be disproportionate, citing lower sentences in other femicide cases.
• The 28-year-old victim’s body was found on January 28, 2022 in the apartment rented by Bonnefoy, who surrendered after three weeks on the run, in a case counted among the Interior Ministry’s 118 feminicides that year.