Mathis is missing since 2011. Fifteen years later, justice despatched his father, Sylvain Jouanneau, to court docket for the homicide of his son, Caen prosecutor Joël Garrigue stated on Tuesday. In different phrases, the investigating decide in control of the case considers that there isn’t any longer any hope of discovering the kid alive.
Sylvain Jouanneau had already been sentenced in 2015 to 20 years of imprisonment for kidnapping and sequestration of his son by the Calvados Assize Court docket. Incarcerated for this conviction and launched in Might 2028, he’s nonetheless in detention.
“Homicide of a minor”
Sylvain Jouanneau, 52, appealed Monday in opposition to his referral to the assizes. The Caen Court docket of Enchantment will have to decide whether he will be tried again or not. Based on the prosecution, the investigating decide in cost issued the indictment order on April 17, paving the way in which for a trial for “homicide of a minor.”
On September 4, 2011, this former divorced government turned mason had not introduced younger Mathis, then 8 years previous, again to his mom, as he ought to have accomplished on the finish of his weekend custody rights. The kid was by no means discovered.
“He took my son from me”
Sylvain Jouanneau had claimed throughout his trial in 2015 to have entrusted to third parties abroad after spending “a month” with him, with out ever saying to whom he had given his youngster. Mathis’ mom, Nathalie Barré, printed a e book on the case in November 2015 entitled “He took my son from me.”
