30 years of imprisonment required for both defendants

The mother, Cécile Bourgeon, and the stepfather, Berkane Makhlouf, are considered "united in the criminal process". Little Fiona's body has never been found.

This is the fourth trial which takes place for this infanticide case which had marked the spirits in 2013. Berkane Makhlouf and Cécile Bourgeon are tried for, in particular, violence which resulted in death without the intention of giving it, a non -assistance to person in danger and concealment of a corpse.
On May 12, 2013, the girl was declared lost by her mother, who, along with her companion, made it seem like a kidnapping. Four months later, she finally confesses that Fiona died from the beatings. The couple claim they do not remember where they deposited the body.
The father has since fought for some form of justice. These thirty years of criminal imprisonment, the maximum penalty, have been demanded from the start against the two accused.

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As guilty as the other

Tuesday, December 15, 2020, the Advocate General requested them, as well as a total withdrawal of parental authority and socio-judicial monitoring. The magistrate insisted on the solidarity of this couple in the criminal process: "Solidarity in handling, in the disappearance of the body, in non-assistance to anyone in danger, they are also united and complementary in fatal blows." Their solidarity is also expressed in the sentence incurred, because according to the Advocate General: "An accomplice is not a second-rate culprit, it is not a half-culprit. The difference is in the roles. They are as guilty as the other, but they act differently."
Interrogations failed to uncover the circumstances of the girl's death. The defendants, however, deliver the same version of the last gruesome journey to conceal the body in a bag, next to Fiona's little sister, and the burial near Lake Aydat.
"Fiona remains today without a decent burial, and this does not seem to bother the defendants too much", noted the Advocate General according to Le Figaro.

Mathilde Wattecamps

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