Perpignan Jury – Sentenced to 28 years in prison for murdering her partner: “No, she’s not the new Jacqueline Sauvage”

What is the truth about this 62-year-old woman who seems to be floating on the dock of the criminal court? Does she see behind her medicated eyelids again those few terrible minutes of September 8, 2021 that only she knows? Three days of discussions were not enough to solve the mystery. Nor understand why Laetitia Lemaitre, after pushing him from the top of the stairs, bent over her companion like a reaper and pierced his body and heart 24 times with the long blade of a knife. Even though he was unconscious.

“A scene worthy of a horror film”, “Massacre”, from “anger”, from “cruelty” and from “anger”, M. are outraged^are Jean-Sébastien de Casalta and Nicolas Milanini. On behalf of the relatives of the victim who traveled in large numbers from Corsica and Bouches-du-Rhône to Perpignan to bear their pain and the memory of Tayeb Tahar. “That’s the job of a lady who plays with the truth,” the lawyers add. “She lies. Tayeb was under her influence. Fascinated by this beautiful woman, he lost himself in this relationship. She wanted to kill her companion that night and wanted him not to escape. Determined, calculating, relentless. But for what poor and unreasonable reason Madame Lemaitre decided to fall into a criminal tizzy. We will never know.

On a real cell phone “this act senseless in its savagery and ferocity”, Advocate General Jean-Claude Miquel will not be able to say anything more. “Is she a battered woman? No, she is not the new Jacqueline Sauvage, as Brigitte Macron wrote. In this case, there are no traces of everyday physical or moral violence. Laetitia Lemaitre is simply a woman above the earth who will not leave”, summarizes. Seeking a sentence of 25 years of criminal imprisonment, with the only mitigating circumstance that “stolen and suffocated childhood” the accused.

This painful past, this story, which could explain many things according to M^e Caroline Anegas, attorney for Laetitia Lemaitre. “They were both fragile. And they didn’t know how to live together except in an accident. The only link between them was the consumption of alcohol. With the impossibility of separation. It couldn’t end well”.

“I have already taken 20 years in my family”

To Laetitia, “depending on one’s own discomfort”, “staying alone is impossible because if someone is alone it is because they don’t exist“, admits the lawyer. “So she’s going to hold on to this love story and she’s allowed the anger she’s built up over all these years of suffering to wash over her.” Stunned by acts so shocking that “maybe her unconscious doesn’t want to remember it.” “Believe me, she will always remain locked in the dungeons of her unconscious,” ends with M^e Anegas“She regrets it. She said this as soon as she was in police custody: ‘I will never forgive myself for that.’ But this judicial truth that everyone is looking for today will consist of accepting that there are things we will never know. “

So Laetitia Lemaitre stands up in the box and offers her condolences to Tayeb’s family. “I didn’t want it to end like that,” she told them. “In my cell, I feel like I’m in my parents’ room. Because I’ve spent 20 years in my family, locked up, at home. I wonder if I’ll ever find happiness? No, I know that will never happen. We will have to deal with the last words of this inscrutable woman. Who returns to prison for 28 years… with his secrets.