Sentenced to twenty-five years in prison for the murder of his ex-partner

A 35-year-old man, who killed his ex-partner with around fifty stab wounds in Mably, in the Loire, in March 2021, was sentenced Friday evening to twenty-five years of criminal imprisonment by the Court of seats of the department. Pronounced after three days of hearing, the conviction of Aliou Condoul, a Senegalese whose daughter lives with her mother in Senegal, is accompanied by a definitive ban from French territory following his detention. The Attorney General, Abdelkrim Grini, had requested thirty years of imprisonment, accompanied by a security sentence of twenty years, for this man who had been residing in France irregularly since 2018.

Abdelkrim Grini stressed that the accused had “attacked” his ex-partner, going to get a second knife when the blade of the first had broken under the violence of the blows. Aliou Condoul also wanted to humiliate his victim, an employee of a nursing home, insisted the attorney general, recalling that he had sent intimate videos of her and her new companion and naked photos of her to relatives, bloodied on the bed where she was found by investigators.

The accused claimed to have “gone crazy” upon discovering that the woman with whom he had been married religiously four months previously, but from whom he had been separated for two months, had a relationship with his best friend, after having searched through the messaging system of his telephone.

The defense cited the “narcissistic fragility”, as well as the different codes of culture and religion of the man who very quickly became a prisoner after killing the one he “wanted to keep”. The civil party, who represented the victim’s mother, considered herself to be in the presence of “the classic pattern of domestic violence which results in femicide”.