To start 2021, the Assize Court of Aude will hold its first session from January 11 to 22, with three criminal cases to judge, two of which are appealing from Hérault and P.-O.
Did he beat his wife to death?
Monday 11 am to 2 pm, to Friday January 15, a 54-year-old man will be in the box of the accused to be tried on appeal for the murder of his wife, on September 17, 2014, in Montpellier. On January 18, 2019, after five hours of deliberation, the 50-year-old was sentenced to 30 years of criminal imprisonment by the Hérault Assize Court. The man has always proclaimed his innocence, denying having smashed his wife’s skull, after dropping the children off at school because she threatened to divorce …
Sequestration and rape in Collioure
From Monday 6 to 9 a.m., to Wednesday, January 20, a new case coming to appeal (this time from the Pyrénées-Orientales) will be examined by the popular jury in Aude. For this new case, Éric Freyssinge, aged 52, and Didier Tribillac, 32, will again have to answer for the rape and kidnapping of a 23-year-old man on July 29, 2011 in Collioure. In December 2019, shortly before Christmas, the two defendants were sentenced to 12 years of criminal imprisonment by the Assize Court of the Pyrénées-Orientales.
Incestuous rape between brother and sisters
From Thursday 21, at 9 a.m., to Friday, January 22, in its configuration to try minors, the Assize Court of Aude will meet to try Amaury L., accused of rape, sexual assault and corruption of minors under 15. During the alleged events, which took place in Rieux-Minervois in April 2018, the respondent was 17 years old. According to our information, the two sisters of the accused, born in 2004 and 2005, are victims in this case. In fact, the older brother allegedly asked his younger daughter to have sex with him, even for money. The latter having then refused, she went to find her younger sister to replace her. Placed in pre-trial detention for eight months, between April and December 2018, the accused is now under judicial supervision. He will appear free.
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