CHALON-SUR-SAôNE (FRANCE) - A French woman who killed her rapist husband was spared any more jail time Friday in a case that has become a rallying cause for feminists.
French woman who killed rapist stepdad-turned-husband walks free
Valerie Bacot talks to journalists as she leaves Chalon-sur-Saone Courthouse, flanked by relatives and lawyers. PHOTO: AFP
AFP, France
AFP, France
A French woman who killed her rapist husband was spared more jail time on Friday (June 25) in a case that has become a rallying cause for feminists.
Valerie Bacot, who shot her husband Daniel Polette dead in 2016, was sentenced to a four-year term with three years suspended.
But she walked free from the court in Saone-et-Loire in eastern France as she had already served a year in pre-trial detention.
The verdict was met with thunderous applause in the courtroom, and some of Bacot s friends and family burst into tears.
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