France: three convicted at the Paris assize court of a killing framed as a disenchantment rite
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none over the victim — the principal was the victim's own spouse
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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
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Proceedings
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
Cited 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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- https://la1ere.franceinfo.fr/une-guadeloupeenne-condamnee-a-30-ans-de-reclusion-criminelle-pour-l-assassinat-de-son-epouse-martiniquaise-sur-fond-de-sorcellerie-vaudou-1383326.html Corpus classification: national-public-broadcaster; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 78937f124fe28d62a783560f26182d70fdc5fc475d8f381cc262435e852d7609
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- 2026-07-20 · Preserved
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