Julie Douib’s feminicide had particularly marked in 2019. A new trial opens this Friday on this case.
Whether or not they are known authors such as actor Sofiane Bennacer or youtubeur Léo Grasset, many cases of violence against women are in the news. If the light on the disappearance of Delphine Jubillar is still far from being shed, the Julie Douib affair is at his second trial.
On June 16, 2021, the victim’s ex-companion Bruno Garcia-Cruciani was sentenced to life imprisonment accompanied by a 22-year security sentence and the deprivation of parental authority. The president of the Bastia Assize Court then admitted that it was a particularly severe penalty because of the ultimate violence of the murder, the lack of regret on the part of the accused and the risk of repetition of the facts, given his “impulsive and vindictive” personality.
The accused admitted to the gendarmes having gone to Julie Douib’s house on Ile-Rousse in Haute-Corse with a Glock 17 pistol equipped with a silencer March 3, 2019. In shared custody, their 8 and 10 year old sons were at his home when he showed up at Julie’s home. He had shot her in their room, hitting her in the left elbow, then shot a second time without hitting her on the balcony, and finally a third time in the chest and left arm, while she was on the ground.
His neighbor Maryse Santini discovered her on the balconylying in her blood: “She simply said to me, ‘he killed me’”. During a white march organized a few days later, she had testified: “It had already been a month since she had been telling me ‘he is going to kill me, he is going to kill me’, and that’s it…”.
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The retrial of a femicide case
Bruno Garcia Cruciani always said that he had not premeditated his gesture but the prosecution had mentioned the sale of its vehicles and research on the internet which suggested the opposite: “going to live in Thailand”, “penalty for homicide with a weapon”…
This Friday, a second trial opens in Ajaccio. Julie’s father spoke of failures in the system and a lack of listening. The council of parents and brother of Julie Me Jean-Sébastien De Casalta declared: “The family of Julie Douib approaches this second trial with a heavy heart at the idea of reliving this tragedy which plunged her into a mourning that will never end. For them, “justice was rendered to his martyr” in the first instance.
The couple’s children are represented by Me Francesca Seatelli who said: “The only thing we can want for these children is that they are protected”.
On the defense side, Me Gilles Antomarchi specified that they reserve their observations and questions for the Assize Court of Appeal. He will have by his side Me Jean-Paul Eon during this week of trial.
At the time of the tragedy, Marlène Schiappa had declared concerning this 30th feminicide of the year that Julie had “not been sufficiently protected”. A Grenelle against domestic violence had been organized. In 2022, 110 women died from domestic violence.
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