Sentenced to 30 years in prison for Bastien’s father, died in a washing machine – L’Express

The child’s father Bastien Christophe Champenois, was sentenced Friday 30 years in prison and 20 years of security for the “aggravated murder” of his son, who died trapped in washing machine . The Seine-et-Marne Assize Court has imposed the sentence to a term of 30 years security. Charlene Cotte, the boy’s mother of three, was sentenced to 12 years, convicted of “complicity”.

Before making his submissions, the Advocate-General delivered a final detailed this “heinous crime” story that took place November 25, 2011 in Germigny-l’Evêque in the Seine-et-Marne. “The black, shaking, accelerations, decelerations, total horror …” he told Eric Valroger. “I have lots of Assize trial behind me,” he confided, “but I must admit, I had never reached this level of horror in an Assize trial.”

“You know, Christophe Champenois, you go kill Bastien, you know, by turning on the washing machine, your son would suffer and that his martyrdom would be unsustainable,” said the General Counsel. Bastien’s father, on the pretext of punishing the boy who had not been good at school, locked him in the family washing machine before running into spin mode. A procedure “particularly vile” according to the General Counsel.

Charlene Cotte has not intervened

When Eric de Valroger requested the acquittal of Charlene Cotte, a certain emotion was felt in the courtroom. It considered that, even if it has not tried to intervene as it claims, it does not mean accomplice in the murder.

On November 25, 2011, while Christophe Champenois shut the small Bastien in the machine, the mother “was doing a puzzle” with his daughter, as explained by the small. The investigating judge spoke of a voluntary act of the mother in order to prevent the girl to go to the aid of her little brother, she heard screaming. But according to the Advocate General, this explanation did not permit to explain the inaction of the mother, since the little girl of five years at the material would have in all cases been unable to help Bastien.

Throughout the trial, the mother presented as a victim of abuse “Mister” as she called her former partner.