US EditionFrench Woman Who Burned Grandfather Alive Handed Five-Year Sentence
- A French court in Bourg-en-Bresse sentenced 33-year-old Emilie G. to a total of five years behind bars for setting her incapacitated 95-year-old grandfather on fire in August 2020, suspending four of those years.
- The killing took place following the day her partner admitted to being unfaithful, after which Emilie G. doused her grandfather's mattress with gasoline and ignited it before fleeing.
- Emilie G. said she acted to end her grandfather’s suffering, whom she cared for and viewed as a father figure, while prosecutors argued she killed him to exorcise her frustrations.
- The court acknowledged the grandfather’s weariness but ruled he did not explicitly request help to die; a psychiatric report noted Emilie G. was in a dissociative state impairing her judgment.
- Prosecutors challenged the sentence, seeking a 15-year term on the grounds that it was too lenient, while Emilie G. showed remorse during the appeal proceedings held in Bourg-en-Bresse.
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For three days, in Bourg-en-Bresse, Emilie G. was tried on appeal for having handed down his 95-year-old alderman to flames at the end of his life. On Wednesday 25 June, the jurors did not hold his defence invoking "an act of love" but decided not to send him to prison. ...
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AlKhaleej Today‘Act of love’? French woman who burned grandfather alive gets five-year prison sentence
BOURG-EN-BRESSE (France), June 26 — A French woman who burned her bedridden grandfather alive by setting his mattress on fire was given a five-year prison term on Wednesday, with four years suspended, after prosecutors appealed a previous sentence they deemed too lenient. In October 2024, a court handed Emilie G, 33, a five-year suspended sentence after she admitted to killing her grandfather, describing it as “an act of love” to end his sufferi…
Emily Z. was facing a life sentence, but the court accepted a psychiatrist's report that found the defendant was in a state of dissociation when she committed the crime.
A French appeals court has sentenced a woman to house arrest for setting her 95-year-old grandfather on fire in his bed, saying he wanted to die. The court ruled that it could not be considered a justifiable form of euthanasia, AFP reported on Wednesday. The mother-of-two was given a year of house arrest and four years of probation.
The bed in which her grandfather lay lit her with gasoline. Later she spoke of euthanasia. A court of appeal in France dealt with a woman's brutal act.
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