France: Killed partner before child eyes, Liridon Berisha sentenced to life in prison

After four days of debate, the Meurthe-Moselle Court of Criminals again condemned Liridon Berisha, 27, to life imprisonment for his partner's murder, Stephanie Di Vincenzo, who was stabbed in the middle of the street in Hayang (Moselle), at night between 23 and 24 May 2021. Punishment was accompanied [...]
The sentence was accompanied by an unfair period of parole for 18 years. In 2024, on the first scale, the sentence was accompanied by an outright period of 22 years, the top priority, reports AFPKlankosova broadcast.tv.
The victim was stabbed in front of the couple's child
The victim, 22, was massacred by her partner as she tried desperately to seek help from the law enforcement forces, ringing the interphone bell of the Hayang commissioner, located 45m from her apartment, from where she had fled through the window.
Her partner had stabbed her in the street, striking her in the eyes of the neighbors and the couple's child, who was at the time four-year-old.
A scene named “outside normal for violence” by the attorney general, Nicolas Berkel, on Friday. Neither the presence of witnesses nor that of his daughter prevented him from continuing the act”, he followed. As in the cohort, he pierced her to weaken her before she took her life and then spit on her body, an additional blow of humiliation! ”
He had requested confirmation of the sentence given on the first degree, labeling it a “punishment of social elimination”, broadcast Clankosova.tv.
On the other hand, Arnaud Blanc, Liridon Berisha's lawyer, according to media “Ouest-French”, recalled that his client was “born in 1998, in the middle of the Kosovo War, where the greatest massacre of that war took place, and that after arriving on French territory it was placed under caution, as terror prevailed within the family.
But the childicide caused controversy. Order forces had intervened about ten times in the couple's residence before the act was done. Several months before the murder, the victim had presented a confession that had not been forwarded to the prosecutor.












