Overview
- The defendant denied contaminating the family’s food and cosmetics at the opening of the trial despite earlier custodial statements acknowledging the acts and an antisemitic remark noted by police.
- She is charged with administering harmful substances causing more than eight days of incapacity, with an antisemitic aggravating circumstance retained by the investigating judge after the prosecutor initially declined to include it.
- Forensic analyses reported massive traces of polyethylene glycol and other chemical agents in wine, whisky, fig alcohol, grape juice, pasta and a make‑up remover, described as harmful or corrosive.
- Prosecutors requested three years in prison, continued detention, a ten‑year ban from French territory and a bar on contact with the family, with the verdict scheduled for December 18.
- The 42‑year‑old Algerian also faces prosecution for using a falsified Belgian ID and has been under an order to leave France since February 2024, as CRIF, UEJF, Licra and SOS Racisme participate as civil parties and CRIF’s president testifies.