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Conviction Haitian Vodou Haitian Vodou contexts Paris, France · 2023

France: three convicted at the Paris assize court of a killing framed as a disenchantment rite

Record class

Context only

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

none over the victim — the principal was the victim's own spouse

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

NOT AN AUTHORITY-ABUSE CASE. Recorded as victim-directed ritual: the belief that the victim required a counter-sorcery rite is what the prosecution established as the killing's frame.

  • Curse or witchcraft threat
  • Violent occult ideology or sacrifice

Evidence structure

Proceedings

  1. 2023-04-09 · convictions and sentences

    Cour d'assises de Paris, France. In April 2023 the Paris assize court convicted Christy Daupin, Iven Webster and Sabrina Moreau of the March 2019 murder of Daupin's wife, a thirty-six-year-old Martinican woman, in a case the prosecution placed against a background of Caribbean sorcery and 'désenvoûtement' — a disenchantment rite believed necessary against her. Daupin received thirty years, Webster twenty-five and Moreau eighteen.

Documented coercion mechanisms

  • belief that sorcery had to be countered by a 'désenvoûtement' (disenchantment) rite directed at the victim

Primary record

Sources

national public broadcaster verdict and sentencing report France Info La 1ère: report of the assize verdict and sentences.

Public broadcaster's court report.

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