the false victim sentenced to one year in prison – Liberation

The facts had taken place in the very building where, on March 23, 2018, Mireille Knollsurvivor of the Shoah, had been killed, victim at his home of an anti -Semitic act. Nancy S., 50, was sentenced this and a half years in prison on Wednesday, May 14, including one year in prison, by the Paris Criminal Court for a long month for having denounced anti-Semitic tags against her when she was herself the author.

Regretting Release a decision « Too severe », The lawyer for Nancy S. announced his desire to appeal. « The court did not take into account the elements of doubt about the participation of my client in the facts from the beginning until the end of December 2024, the date from which she admitted that she was suspecting, then that she knew it was her daughter« Developed Me Philippe Sarda.

After several hours of Debates not always easy to followthe public prosecutor had requested a sentence of three years in prison, two of which were suspended, an obligation to care, a ban on getting into contact with his daughter for five years as well as with the victims of the building and the prohibition to appear on the scene of the facts.

While, since the October 7 attack, anti -Semitic attacks have more and more numerous, The latest interior figures A triple of anti -Jewish acts between 2022 and 2024 are a tripling of 436 to 1,570, this adoptive mother of three children had gone around the media to denounce abusive and threatening tags in her building. Swastikas, death threats – « Dirty Jews (sic) » – and anonymous letters had been noted by police after 17 complaints filed between September 19, 2024 and January 21, 2025.

But the one who said « More and more abandoned, isolated »had been quickly suspected by the authorities, especially after the installation of a surveillance camera in an elevator. In a video broadcast at the hearing, we see Nancy S. accompanied by his 16 -year -old adoptive daughter, a felt in hand, on the night of January 17 to 18. If it is the daughter who writes inscriptions on the door of the elevator, the images suggest that she performs orders from her mother.

After admitting to the investigators, Nancy S. changed several times. At the helm, the questioning finally accused his daughter of having drawn the tags and sent the anonymous letters to take revenge on a neighbor who would have reported their home to the national child service in danger. The mother pointed them « Identity problems » from her adoptive daughter, born in Senegal. During her hearing, the teenager had first accused herself before pointing his mother’s responsibility: « She said how to do it, and I was doing. »