The trial of three women opened on Monday by the Seine-Maritime Assize Court, the victim’s concubine and an alleged accomplice for having murdered and dismembered the body, and a third for not having prevented this crime committed in 2018. Céline Vasselin, Sliman Amara’s concubine, rose first when called by the president to answer the question of whether she still recognized the facts, admitted during the investigation: having killed the father of her son whom she accuses of violence and tried to make his body disappear in the Seine.
The two women accused of drugging and killing the man with a “sharp and prickly weapon”
“Yes I … I admit the facts”, stammered this 35-year-old beautician, her head tucked into her shoulders and her face partially hidden by her blond hair, before bursting into tears in front of a packed house. “I sincerely regret,” she added. Céline Vasselin and Jessica Adam, 39, a client who became a friend, are accused of having drugged, killed by “sharp and prickly weapon” Sliman Amara, on the night of November 3 to 4, 2018 in the suburbs of Rouen, before dismembering his body.
In the box, Jessica Adam showed no emotion in acknowledging the facts, justifying her ease in speaking in court: “You have to know that being locked up, I’m safe, but the people outside aren’t there. “.
Appearing free under judicial supervision, the third woman on trial, Isabelle Carrie, another friend of Céline Vasselin, also admitted to having been aware of the planned crime “since October 7” without having done anything to prevent it, because she “did not couldn’t imagine being able to do such a thing”.
A degraded relationship between the two spouses
Heard as a witness at the bar, the father of Céline Vasselin recounted the degraded relationship between Céline Vasselin and Sliman Amara. He witnessed reproaches, anger and the aggressiveness of Sliman Amara, who would one day have “dragged by the hair with a knife under her throat” Céline Vasselin, according to a scene reported by her daughter, “who was living an ordeal , subject to his companion”.
In detention, she opened up to her father in writing about the rapes she allegedly suffered from her companion. Previously, Jessica Adam’s aunt reported on the shattered youth of her niece, the violence suffered by her stepfather, “a bastard” who allegedly touched. Verdict expected Friday.