Police discovered the just about totally charred physique of {the teenager} in October 2019. (Representational)
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A person went on trial in France on Monday going through accusations of stabbing after which burning alive a 15-year-old woman in 2019 who was doubtless pregnant by him on the time.
The killing of the secondary faculty pupil, named solely as Shaina, amplified considerations in France over the numbers of younger girls murdered by their companions and in addition their vulnerability to bullying on social networks.
The person, who was aged 17 on the time, is accused of luring Shaina to a shed within the city of Creil north of Paris to kill her and burn her physique.
As he has at all times accomplished, “he disputes the fees and screams his innocence,” his lawyer Adel Fares stated forward of the listening to, including he’ll search an acquittal.
Skinny together with his lengthy hair tied in a bun, the accused gave his identification in a peaceful and youthful-sounding voice on the opening of the listening to the place restrictions forestall the media from figuring out him.
“The household and I are decided that the reality emerges. This reality is linked to the guilt of the accused,” stated the lawyer of Shaina’s household, Negar Haeri.
Police discovered the just about totally charred physique of {the teenager} in October 2019 after receiving a tip-off.
The autopsy forensic examination revealed “a number of wounds” inflicted by a knife but additionally that Shaina was nonetheless respiration initially of the hearth.
The day earlier than, she had gone out after a household dinner. In her purse relations had discovered a constructive being pregnant take a look at.
In keeping with numerous examinations, {the teenager}, who had undergone an abortion a couple of months earlier, was most certainly beginning a brand new being pregnant.
She attributed paternity to the accused, with whom she had had a relationship, based on the investigation.
In addition to the surprising nature of the killing, the case has made waves in France as two years earlier Shaina was the sufferer of sexual assault, for which 4 different younger individuals had been sentenced Thursday on enchantment to suspended sentences starting from six months to 2 years in jail.
Humiliating pictures of her assault had been shared on the messaging app Snapchat with the purpose, based on the lawyer, of exhibiting Shaina as an individual “who they will sleep with but additionally do away with”.
In keeping with the household’s lawyer, Haeri, her demise was “the tip level of a protracted interval of struggling”.
The variety of so-called femicides elevated by 20 p.c in France in 2021 in comparison with the earlier yr, with 122 girls killed by their companion or ex-partner, based on the federal government.
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