Overview
- Raphaël Carvalho, convicted Wednesday, received 25 years in prison with a 15‑year minimum before parole.
- The court also ordered five years of post‑release sociojudicial monitoring, which oversees treatment and behavior during reentry.
- Judges rejected claims of diminished responsibility and did not apply the legal category of murder by a partner.
- Case files detail nine stab wounds, manual strangulation, and bites during what investigators described as a sustained attack.
- Prosecutors had sought a 30‑year term, and the ruling lands as France recorded 107 women killed by partners in 2024, up from 96 in 2023.