Frenchman sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing his wife theguardian.com/world/2020/nov…
On Monday, French authorities said 125,840 women were victims of domestic violence in 2019. Another 146 were murdered by their partner or ex-partner – 25 more than the previous year.
After his wife’s death, Daval had cut a distraught figure, appearing in tears at a press conference with his in-laws and leading one of several events organised countrywide in her memory.
Three months later, prosecutors said the IT worker confessed to the murder – admitting he had beaten his wife in a heated argument, knocking her face against a concrete wall and strangling her.
He initially denied setting fire to her body, but finally admitted to that too, in June last year. Daval changed his story several times, at one point withdrawing his confession, blaming his brother-in-law and finally admitting to everything all over again.
Anyone who kills another human being with premeditation, let alone lies about his crime for months, should not be given the perspective of ever walking free again. Where the murderer is male and killed a woman he was close to, be she his mother, wife, lover, daughter
or even just a recent acquaintance, the punishment must be MORE, not less, severe in order that society clearly indicates it holds these crimes as especially vile, thereby discouraging other men from committing it. #LaPerpétuitéPourTousLesFémicides
And, the same should be true of racially motivated crimes and murders.
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