The 14-year-old victim from the Paris suburb of Argenteuil, named only as Alisha, was found in the Seine river in March 2021.
Prosecutors say the two suspected killers, a boy and a girl, aged 15 at the time, were her former friends who had been expelled from school for bullying her online and in person.
After Alisha met the girl near a motorway bridge over the river, they were joined by the boy who “hit her by surprise in the face, yanked her hair and slapped her so hard she fell to the ground,” the investigators found.
The two then dumped her into the river “to get rid of the traces of the violence they had committed”.
As well as physical and verbal abuse, the suspects are accused of harassing Alisha over pictures of her in underwear that were stolen from her phone and posted on social network Snapchat days before.
Prosecutors said she was the victim of a form of “revenge porn” — in which exes share intimate images of their former partners online to cause emotional harm.
The killing prompted an outpouring of support for Alisha’s family and indignation over cyber-bullying from across France.
More than 2,000 people marched in her memory days after the killing was discovered, with her mother saying that Alisha was “very serious at school” and dreamed of becoming an accountant.
French legal procedure is very strict in trials involving underaged accused. The identities of all parties, and the details of the court hearing, are strictly protected.
After a long deliberation of six hours, the children’s court of Pontoise which ruled in criminal matters, found the two teenagers guilty of murder of a minor of 15 years, not retaining premeditation. The boy and the girl, now 17 years old, were sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Previously, the prosecution had requested 18 years in prison against them. Because of their age, they would incur a maximum of 20 years of criminal imprisonment.
The day after the conviction of the two teenagers for Alisha’s murder, the prosecution appealed the decision of the Pontoise juvenile court on Friday. During his indictment, the prosecutor had estimated that Alisha had been the victim of an assassination, that the gesture of the two teenagers had been premeditated. He had demanded for both a sentence of 18 years of criminal imprisonment.
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