The accused, dressed all in white, broke down in tears at the announcement of her sentence to 30 years in prison for “intentional murder, theft and fraud” by the Court of Arbitration of Haute-Saône, which did not recognize the change in its judgment at the time . of events.
“Camille Anguenot's version is just Camille Anguenot's version and is not verifiable. It is that of a person who needed money and a car and who thought that Théo Decouchant would be a good pigeon,” General Counsel Arnaud Grécourt said, before asking for a 25-year prison sentence.
“Théo Découchant is helpful, he's nice, but he doesn't want to be fooled. Did he refuse? did they fight Although she denies that she killed Théo Decouchant to get her money and car, it is clear that she will use them the next day,” he added.
The accused's lawyer, Catherine Bresson, on the contrary, strongly disputes this malicious reason. According to an expert psychiatrist, her client, who was only 18 at the time, “acted radically in the face of a narcissistic wound,” she recalls. “We cannot reduce Camille Anguenot to this seductive, manipulative and perverted woman. We have to go beyond appearances,” argued Mr. Bresson, referring to the difficult childhood of the accused, “a young girl who saw her father hitting her mother and trying to strangle her.”
“Verbal insistence”
Camille Anguenot met Théo Decouchant in a nightclub in November 2021. On November 29, she invited this shy and introverted 23-year-old to spend the evening at her home in Oiselay-et-Grachaux, a small town in Haute-Saône, between Vesoul and Besançon. According to the accused, they fell asleep in the same bed, but she was awakened at night by the caresses of the young man whom she pushed away and who was insistent.
She then punched him several times in the face before grabbing a kitchen knife and stabbing him in the stomach. She then goes to look for a cord in her room before returning to Théo, lying on the ground and strangling him to death. “These caresses do not correspond to the personality of Théo Decouchant”, that “no one around him imagines a sexual aggressor”, according to the general counsel. Camille Anguenot “was not attacked that evening and mere verbal insistence does not justify this action,” he added.
“The Best Funeral Ever”
The following days, the young woman used the victim's car and bank card to go about her life as if nothing had happened. Even though she doesn't have a driver's license, she joins a new lover in Bordeaux, then an old one in Dijon. She claims she wanted to escape, but a car accident ends her escapade and she eventually returns home.
A week after the murder, alerted by the young man's mother, the police came to his home and discovered Théo Decouchant's body wrapped in garbage bags, closed with large brown tape, hidden in a closet with brooms in the living room. “A Broom Closet: Even an Animal Deserves a Better Burial. This is how a man is, for Camille Anguenot: a mummy in garbage bags,” denounced the lawyer of the victim's family, Christophe Bernard, holding before the jurors photos of Théo's corpse.