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A French prosecutor requested 30 years in jail for a man accused of stabbing his former partner in 2021 even though he repeatedly warned the authorities who was harassing her after years of abuse.

A court was expected in the southwest city of Bordeaux to issue its verdict later on Friday in a case that his family’s lawyer has described as a predictable murder.

On average, a woman is killed every three days in France.

In 2021, Sandra Pla reported several times that her former partner was abusive and harassed her, even wrote a letter to President Emmanuel Macron to seek help.

On July 2, 2021, the body of the 31 -year -old was found in a pool of blood in her home in Bordeaux with about 50 white weapon wounds, particularly in her neck and face.

Mickael Falou, 40, admitted to having killed Pla, his former companion and the mother of his daughter.

But during his trial since Wednesday he denied the premeditated murder and said he could not remember at the time he stabbed her.

Prosecutor Veronique Comrade argued that “he intended to go and kill Sandra Pla.

“He waited for her, surprised her, terrified her and killed her.”

In 2018, a year after the birth of his daughter, Pla began to trust those close to her that Falou was being abusive.

She left it in January 2021, then obtained the total custody of her daughter in May 2021.

He had complained for months that his son’s father was harassing her.

The companion said that Pla’s murder was a clear case of femicide the murder of a woman due to her gender, often by a couple or ex -partner and emphasized the importance of fighting “against this plague.”

Three days before his death, Falou had been arrested and then released under judicial supervision, with a court order to stay away from Pla.

The prosecutor said that the fact that the murder occurred while Falou was allegedly monitored seemed “terrible” for the Judiciary.

The lawyer Elsa Crozatier, who has been representing the mother, the stepfather and a brother of the victim, has repeatedly said that this was a predictable femicide.

She read an excerpt from a letter that the victim wrote to the French president: “His anger is growing and more and more threatening … should I wait for something bad to happen to me?”

However, one of Falou’s lawyers, Elena Badescu, argued that her client had not killed Pla “because he was a woman” and that he was not possessive or jealous.

Several witnesses reported on Wednesday how terrified the victim was.

Her parents had moved for a few months even with her, and she had installed a bell with a security camera.

An expert on Thursday described Falou on Thursday as “incapable of empathy”, and had been trying to portray himself as a victim.

Falou said he had broken into Pla’s house around 4:30 am on the day he killed her, and hidden until she returned after taking her daughter to school.

“I was totally desperate. I was obsessed with demonstrating that they had invented false evidence” to obtain custody, he told the court.

In his final statement, Falou said he was “tormented” for killing his ex -partner, but between two sobs he said he felt “misunderstood.”

In 2023, 96 women were killed by their partners or former partners in France, a 19 percent drop since 2022, according to the latest figures of the Interior Ministry.

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