It was the 93rd femicide of 2019. A man was sentenced Friday to 22 years in prison for killing his partner, whose body was found in 2019 in a suitcase he was carrying in the trunk of his car. car.
The Haute-Savoie Assize Court found Moulay-Driss Ouhmid, 47, guilty of the murder of Marianne Chèze, 37, with whom he had two children. Aged 6 and 9 at the material time, they were dozing in the back of the vehicle at the time of the arrest in Doussard, near Lake Annecy. The man had in the past not been the subject of any report for a history of violence, and was not known to justice.
For Advocate General Pierre Filliard, the victim died during the night of August 16 to 17, 2019 in his apartment in Annecy “because of his phone”, according to him “the key to this story”. During the trial, which lasted five days, Moulay-Driss Ouhmid admitted to having tied up, hit and strangled his companion to obtain the code to unlock her laptop, thus returning to his first version of the facts – he had then mentioned a game sex that would have degenerated.
She had placed two handrails
“You didn’t give him a chance,” hammered the magistrate, stressing that the 30-year-old had “relentless” on his companion. At the time, Marianne Chèze had an affair with another man, with whom she exchanged by telephone. “She had decided to regain her freedom. The break was recorded, “said the lawyer for the couple’s two children, Me Hélène Rothera.
Faced with this prospect of separation, Moulay-Driss Ouhmid had “a stroke of madness” and committed “the irreparable”, explains for his part Me Marc Dufour, one of his lawyers. At that time, “it is unthinkable that he could lose her” but he had no intention of killing her, supports the defense, pleading “mortal blows”.
During the trial, testimonies evoked a context of domestic violence. “Marianne was a battered woman”, reported Marjorie Berruex, a lawyer who mentioned two handrails in 2011 and 2018. The Advocate General estimated that the mother of the family had not then filed a complaint. because “she was afraid of losing her children and that the situation would get worse”.
After the death of Marianne Chèze, Moulay-Driss Ouhmid hid her body – thin and small – in a suitcase. He had taken the road to Italy with his two children to go to a cousin, before giving up and surrendering to the French police. A “distressing, irrational” behavior, recognized his lawyer. “It’s ridiculous but I can only ask forgiveness,” agreed the accused before the jurors retired to deliberate.