From this Wednesday, June 15, Martin Barison, accused of murdering a 3-year-old boy in Nîmes, appears before the Gard Assize Court. The child was killed in his mother’s apartment on the night of November 9-10, 2019.
It’s a trial testing which begins this Wednesday before the Assize Court of Gard. Martin Barison, 30, an Italian is charged with the murder of Ethan, a 3-year-old boy.
On November 10, 2019, firefighters were called to an apartment on rue des Lombards in Nîmes to rescue this child. When help arrived, the little boy was already dead and his body bore the marks of multiple bruises. The finding is dramatic.
The child is said to have died after suffering a hundred punches and kicks to the face and chest on the night of November 9 to 10. Blows of extreme violence that caused a cranial hemorrhage and liver damage. Around 11 p.m., a neighbor heard crying and screaming for about 40 minutes.
Mom is out at night
That night, the mother was absent. As often, she had gone out with a friend during the night. And it is Martin Barison, his companion met seven months earlier, who kept his two children, Ethan, 3 years old and another little boy even younger.
For a long time, Martin Barison denied being the author of these multiple blows. He questioned and denigrated Sirad, the mother or mentioned a game with the child that would have gone wrong.
The second expertise carried out by the investigating judge made it possible to exclude the responsibility of the mother who benefited from a dismissal. The death of the little boy intervened in the night. Martin Barison then slept little Ethan next to his little brother. And the mother returned to her home around 7 o’clock.
Why this outburst of violence? Why this hatred? Because he couldn’t stand his girlfriend using his services to babysit? Because he was jealous of Sirad’s love for this little boy who often shared his mother’s bed? Because by hurting this child, he was hurting her?
The mother and her two children had been living for a few days on rue des Lombards.
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For My Florence De Prato and Piery Fumanal who will defend the accused, this file is extremely difficult. Defendant Martin Barison faces life imprisonment. It is the Advocate General, Willy Lubin who will bring the charge. The association The voice of the child represented by Me Mireille Rodet will be a civil party.
A non-place for the mother
Sirad, the mother of the little victim was placed in pre-trial detention for a year. Accused of the murder of her child, the mother defended by Annelie Deschamps will finally be exonerated by the investigating judge.
She is a civil party. Her festive behavior, her negligence – she went out at night in a disco and left her two children in the care of her acquaintances or her companion at the time – had been put forward. This is not the mother’s trial”, insists his lawyer.
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