The trial for the murder of Shaïna, a 15-year-old girl found burned alive in October 2019, opens this Monday, June 5, 2023 at the Oise minors’ assize court. The accused, a minor at the time of the facts, denies any responsibility.
[Updated June 5 at 3:30 p.m.] A new part of the Shaïna case opens in court. The trial for the murder of the 15-year-old girl begins at the assize court for minors in Oise, this Monday, June 5, 2023, almost four years after the facts. It was in October 2019 that the young girl was found stabbed and burned alive in the city of Plateau Roucher, in Creil. The victim’s parents, Parveen and Shakill Hansye, are preparing for a five-day trial that they know will be difficult.
The main suspect in this case and only defendant at the trial is none other than Shaïna’s then-boyfriend. The youngster was 17 at the time. Placed in pre-trial detention since his arrest in October 2019, the defendant denies all the charges against him. If Shaïna’s family does not expect the accused to change his speech, they are waiting “for justice [them] to give answers,” he told BFMTV. The verdict of the trial organized behind closed doors must be rendered this Friday, June 9.
The answers that the parents of the deceased teenager hope to find are still numerous despite the holding of a first trial at the beginning of 2022 on the sexual assaults of which their daughter had been the victim a few years before being murdered. After this second appointment with justice, a third trial should take place this time for acts of aggravated violence committed against Shaïna.
Found dead in a burnt garden shed and located a few steps from the building in which she lived, in Creil, Shaïna was murdered by several stab wounds before being burned alive while she was pregnant. The boyfriend that the girl had at the time is suspected of being the perpetrator of the crime and the pregnancy, a priori unforeseen, could have been the motivation for the assassination according to the elements collected by the police investigators during investigations. According to the alleged unfolding of the facts, the young man would have made an appointment with Shaïna in this shed, in which he would have previously hidden a knife, to assassinate her. For his part, the accused firmly denies being behind the murder of the teenager.
Shaïna had been the victim of other assaults the two years preceding her death. The teenager’s ordeal began in 2017, when she was 13 years old. The girl had been blackmailed by her previous boyfriend who had an intimate photo of her. Forced to grant sexual favors to the young man to prevent the dissemination of the cliché, Shaïna had refused to give in to the threat, but had been trapped and sexually assaulted by her boyfriend and two friends of the latter, respectively aged 16. and 17 years old. The teenager’s rape had been filmed and broadcast on social media.
After this attack, the young girl had filed a complaint with the police and changed college, but suffered from a reputation of “easy girl” after the dissemination of the aforementioned images and videos. In addition to being insulted, Shaïna continued to be harassed by her attackers, who were kept at a distance for a year by distancing measures until May 2019, when the young girl was beaten up by her ex-boyfriend. friend and four other people. Six months later, the teenager would have been this time the victim of her new boyfriend.
The last years of Shaïna “concentrate all the forms of violence that a woman can receive, both moral violence and physical violence”, estimates the lawyer for the family of the victim, Me Negar Haeri with BFMTV. According to her, the young woman was not “listened to, heard right away” when she reported the violence of which she was the target. Today, the trial will not be able to lessen the family’s anger or pain, but it can recognize the harm that has been done to Shaïna.
The 15-year-old girl has had several executioners, but the individual suspected of being her assassin is the boyfriend she had been dating for a few weeks before her death. The accused was then 17 years old and would have been interested in the young girl for her reputation as an “easy girl”, writes Le Canard enchaîné. Now 21, the young man continues to deny the charges against him. Placed in pre-trial detention, he would however have been verbose with his fellow prisoners – and his friends before being imprisoned – on the murder of Shaïna. “I prefer to take thirty years than to be the father of a bastard” would have declared the defendant in prison adding to have “killed his girlfriend who was a whore whom he had impregnated”, reports Le Parisien. Wrongly made denunciations in the context of conflicts between detainees according to the defendant’s lawyer, Me Arfi.
The testimonies will be crucial during the trial of Shaïna’s assassination, but the two parties are also counting on the elements clarified by the investigation, some of which incriminate the accused: a vague schedule to which the man would have returned, inconsistent statements during the hearings, burn marks on those legs during his arrest, and bloodstains on those shoes noticed by a witness. “But no material evidence links him to this crime,” replies the defense lawyer to the Ile-de-France newspaper.
The trial on the assassination of Shaïna must rule on the guilt of the accused. The 21-year-old faces twenty years in prison, but life imprisonment could also be required if the assize court decides not to take into consideration the minority of the accused at the time of the facts.
Despite the incriminating evidence and testimony obtained by the investigators against the accused, the defendant and his lawyer intend to plead an acquittal. Their defense? The absence of a direct and tangible link between the suspect and the crime scene and the fact that the investigators followed, according to them, only one track: that pointing to the accused.
The Shaïna affair is such that three investigations have been or are still being carried out by the courts. A first trial was held on January 31 and February 1, 2022 at the Senlis Criminal Court to try the perpetrators of the sexual assaults committed on Shaïna in 2017. After the appeal by the Senlis prosecutor, the four defendants were sentenced ranging from 6 months suspended prison sentence to 2 years suspended prison sentence, a decision rendered on June 1, 2023.
The trial for Shaïna’s murder is a new stage in the legal journey of the teenager’s family, which is not ready to end. According to the verdict of the assize trial, normally delivered on Friday June 9, recourse to an appeal by one of the parties is possible. Above all, a third investigation is underway with a view to a new trial, this time relating to acts of “aggravated violence”, “theft” and “threats” committed against Shaïna.
