Overview
- The Nanterre criminal court on December 18 sentenced the 42-year-old Algerian caregiver to two and a half years in prison for a January 2024 attempted poisoning in Levallois-Perret.
- Judges dismissed the antisemitism aggravating circumstance, citing remarks recorded weeks after the events and transcribed in police custody without a lawyer.
- The court imposed a five-year ban from French territory and convicted her of using a fake Belgian ID, whereas prosecutors had sought three years in prison and a 10-year ban.
- Investigators said she poured cleaning products into bottles of alcohol and suspected other items were tainted, though she later tried to retract her initial admissions in court.
- The defendant was already under an order to leave France, and the presiding judge characterized the acts as a profound betrayal of the parents’ trust.