Sexual assault, violence, murder… the trying judicial marathon of Shaïna’s family

2023-06-04 12:00:50

In the courtroom of the courthouse in Amiens (Somme), Parveen and Shakill Hansye seem disappointed. On June 1, they came to hear the deliberations of the minors’ chamber of the court of appeal in the case of sexual assault committed in August 2017 on their daughter Shaïna. Two years later, their granddaughter was found stabbed and burned alive in a shed in Creil on October 25, 2019.

But the grieving parents will have finally had to wait until Thursday, June 1 to know the court’s decision: prison sentences ranging from from 6 months suspended to 2 years suspended for the four men aged 14 to 17 at the material time, who were not even present in the courtroom. “It’s nonsense,” indignant Yasin, brother of the victim, visibly tired by two trying trials in the context of this case, the first part of Shaina’s three-part ordeal.

But no time to really dwell on this failure. Barely out, the family must already focus on another trial: that of Shaina’s Assassination, which begins Monday, June 5 before the assize court for minors in the Oise. This is the third in the space of a year and a half.

“It’s a nightmare to live all that”

And the “legal marathon” is not about to stop. One of the young men convicted of sexual assault was returned on March 17, 2023 to the Senlis children’s court, where he must be tried – with another person – for acts of “aggravated violence”, “theft” and “threat” committed on Shaïna in May 2019, a few months before his death. That day, the young girl woke up in the hospital after being beaten up at the bend of a street, possibly for having denounced the acts of sexual assault of which she had been the victim two years earlier.

Not to mention a possible appeal at the outcome of the verdict of the Assize Court which must be delivered next Friday. “It’s a nightmare to live through all this, says Yasin. I’m 25 today and I’ve never had a youth. “The pain, there is only that since the departure of our daughter”, breathes her mother Parveen. However, there is no question of “giving up”. “We hold on thanks to our faith, the support of people and especially for Shaïna”, continues Yasin, who called for a rally in front of the Beauvais courthouse before the start of the trial.