This Monday, February 6, Firmine Richard testified at the trial of her son, Keneff Léauva, accused of murder. The actress delivers a chilling story.
“I know my son is not a killer“, Claims Firmine Richard. However, it was indeed for murder that he appeared before the judge. This Monday, February 6, was the second day of Keneff Léauva’s trial before the Assize Court of Seine-Saint-Denis. 40-year-old man is on trial for having, on April 11, 2021, stabbed Madani Touré, 38, several times, one of which was fatal to him. It all started with an argument between the two men on the Bigo Live streaming site. Keneff then threatened tocut the throat of anyone who comes near the maternal home. Keneff Léauva’s use of social networks had already worried her mother for some time. This is what she explained on this second day of the trial where she was expected to take the stand, as reported The Parisian in its edition of Tuesday, February 7.
“Keneff lived in seclusion. He switches to the virtual world. Often, the notoriety of his mother is at the heart of the quarrels. He leaves in a quarter turn. Firmine Richard will herself be harassed“, write our colleagues. And the main interested party to confide: “I know he was addicted. Me, I hate social media. I told him: as long as you do not leave the networks, I will not file a complaint“. But Keneff Léauva’s violence eventually caught up with him in the real world. On the morning of the day of the tragedy, the man returns to the family home “his face bloodied, a knife in his jeans pocket“.”Someone came to get me, I defended myself. Now he is in Avicenna [l’hôpital de Bobigny, ndlr]“, replies the person concerned to his mother when she asks him for an explanation.
Firmine Richard: “I couldn’t see the knife anymore”
Impossible to know exactly what happened in the head of the 75-year-old actress at this precise moment. It is also impossible to know how we would have reacted in his place. Still, Firmine Richard seized the knife that her son had placed on his bed. She ran it under water, then poked it in a bucket which is in the garden shed. However, she denies having wanted to hide the murder weapon or protect her son. “I washed it, I put it in my garden. I couldn’t see him anymore. I didn’t throw it away. Not for a moment did I think that this gentleman was dead. I can tell you 25 times if you want sir“, she dropped to the president.
Firmine Richard took advantage of his time at the helm to describe his son as “a hyperactive, turbulent childstruggling to keep a job, but helpful“. During this day, we also learned that Keneff Léauva has suffered violence from his father, Antoine Léauva, former mediator with young offenders. He “hit his son so fiercely with a belt that he couldn’t sit down all week“, recount The Parisian. A father who does not come to see his son in prison, believing that it is “too hard psychologically“. What Keneff does not understand who reminds him: “Dad, you went to see other people’s children in prison, why don’t you come see me?“. A poignant story.