It has been a little over an hour since the debates began in Draguignan in the third trial for the murder of Krenar Skendo, a 46-year-old Sisteron of Albanian origin, on July 4, 2014. Outside, the rain is falling with crash on the windows of the courthouse and sometimes makes the debates difficult to hear.
In the room, it is the opposite: the president of the Assize Court of Var, Patrick Véron takes infinite precautions. He becomes a teacher. He makes sure that no procedure is forgotten. Is this the shadow of the Court of Cassation? In 2020, believing that a question should have been stated, the high court annulled the last decision taken in this case. The one which condemned the companion and the daughter-in-law of the victim to 25 and 20 years in prison for murder. That is five more years for each than the first trial in Digne-les-Bains, in 2018.
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