Sohaib Teima, a 24-year-old from Fermo accused of the femicide of his ex-girlfriend, Auriane Laisne, a 22-year-old French woman, found dead on April 5, 2024, in the abandoned church of Equilivaz, above La Salle, in the Aosta Valley, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
She suffered three fatal stab wounds to the neck and abdomen. The sentence was handed down by the Aosta Court of Assizes. Public Prosecutor Manlio D'Ambrosi had requested life imprisonment for the defendant, who was deemed competent following a psychiatric evaluation.
"We are only half satisfied," commented Luca Tommaso Calabrò, Teima's lawyer, "in the sense that the prosecutor's request for life imprisonment seemed disproportionate to us. We continue to maintain innocence, but in the context of a guilty verdict, it is a sentence that can still be reviewed : the reasons will make the difference. Obviously, we are waiting to read the verdict before proceeding with the appeal."
"We contested, beyond Sohaib's guilt," added Lucia Lupi, Teima's other lawyer, " the aggravating circumstance of premeditation and the crime of concealing a corpse. We are, however, pleased with the outcome ."
"The defense," D'Ambrosi said during his replies, "attempted to distort reality. They claimed it was a circumstantial trial, and they advanced an alternative route in a vain attempt to confuse the Court. Throughout the trial, a logical, coherent, precise, and timely reconstruction of the facts was made. They moved from serious evidence to evidence. Which was done. The prosecutor doesn't fall for the theory, but he has a duty to find and present evidence, both incriminating and non-incriminating. It's offensive to the prosecutor and his team to say we've provided the answers the prosecutor wanted. That's the defense's job, not the prosecutor's. To think so is extremely offensive."
(Unioneonline)
