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Brightstar82
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 Sat Apr 08, 2006 3:25 pm Man who burned woman Alive Jailed. |
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| Quote: | CRETEIL, France (Reuters) -- A French court sentenced a man to 25 years in prison on Saturday for burning to death a teenage girl in a garbage depot in a Parisian suburb.
Outrage over the death of 17-year-old Sohane Benziane in October 2002 produced a wave of feminist protest across France, with women rallying against an atmosphere of fear and violence haunting many girls in poor suburbs.
In the trial, Jamal Derrar, 22, admitted having led Benziane into the garbage depot, dousing her with petrol and threatening her with a lighter, but he said he only wanted to scare her.
His friend Tony Rocca, 23, was sentenced to eight years for complicity in the crime.
"It's an accident," Derrar said during the trial. "I thought I'd control the situation, having fun threatening her ... I saw the fire starting all of a sudden," he said.
"I'm afraid. I know I'm going to spend my youth in prison, I'm not proud of that. I feel ashamed," he said.
Derrar was charged with acts of torture and barbarity that led to unintentional death.
Derrar said he had wanted to talk to Benziane about restarting their relationship, which she had refused.
But witnesses said the two had never had a relationship. Derrar had argued with Benziane's boyfriend and wanted to unleash his anger on her, they said.
Prosecutors had called for a 25-year prison sentence.
"The image of a woman being burnt alive is sending us several centuries back," prosecutor Jean-Paul Content told the court on Friday. "Her death has become the symbol of the most extreme violence against women."
The tragedy, which left Benziane rolling in agony on a patch of grass to try to extinguish the flames before she later died in hospital, sparked large rallies by women across France.
Living conditions in poor neighbourhoods outside Paris came into the spotlight in riots there last year, when youths angry about discrimination and a bleak future burned thousands of cars.
Unemployment in the suburbs, where many descendants of African immigrants live, is up to 4 or 5 times higher than in the rest of France, and women's organisations say violence and pressure on women is part of daily life in the suburbs.
Copyright 2006 Reuters. |
Thats cruel the man that did this is where he belongs.
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Lord Borg
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| Sat Apr 08, 2006 3:28 pm |
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burnt alive and he gets 25 years? and is afraid hes spending his youth in prison? What about the woman that died? Should do it to him
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webtaz99
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| Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:55 pm |
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What a sham. There are thousands of ways to "scare" someone which could not result in accidental death. This was murder, straight up. And a particularly cruel murder, at that.
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