He killed me from the inside": Justice condemns Youness E. to the maximum sentence for a barbaric triple infanticide

The verdict was handed down on April 10, 2026 after three grueling days of trial. The maximum sentence is accompanied by a 22-year security period. In November 2023, in the privacy of his Alfortville apartment, the defendant had stabbed and strangled his three children as an imminent divorce was to be pronounced. According to actu.fr, the debates mainly focused on the motive for this barbaric act.

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The prosecution supported the theory of "vicarious violence", suggesting that the father acted out of revenge against his wife. Unable to accept the separation after years of domestic violence, he would have deliberately targeted his daughters to break Samira, the mother. "He attacked my daughters to attack me. He knew very well that my daughters were my weak point," the mother testified, describing a deliberate will to "kill her from the inside".

For his part, the defense pleaded the case of "altruistic suicide", linked to a deep depression and a paranoid drift. His lawyer retraced the complex path of the defendant, from his difficult birth in Morocco to his obsession with rigid education. For his counsel, the act did not result from a desire to punish, but from a psychological "overflow" and a despair that had led him to lose all sense of reality.

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Before the deliberation, Youness E. expressed his regrets before a packed courtroom. "I apologize to everyone. I will live with my guilt for the rest of my life," the defendant said. Despite these last words, the jurors chose severity. The 43-year-old man will spend at least the next two decades behind bars for this crime that has marked minds by its cruelty.