Perhaps many are unaware of it, but in France the death penalty by guillotine remained in force until 1977
Perhaps many are unaware of it, but in France the death penalty by guillotine remained in force until 1977
And the last person sentenced to death was a Tunisian criminal named Hamida Djandoubi who was guilty of a disgusting crime that has recently been at the center of media attention:
feminicide.
This is the story.
In 1971 Djandoubi, employed as a labourer, suffered a serious accident at work which caused the amputation of a leg, an event which affected him psychologically.
In 1973 he tried to force his lover, Élisabeth Bousquet, a twenty-one year old girl he had met while hospitalized, to prostitute herself, but she reported him.
Djandoubi was arrested and spent a few months in prison. In July 1974 Djandoubi kidnapped Bousquet and tortured her, stubbing numerous cigarettes on her breasts and genitals in front of the eyes of two girls who prostituted themselves for him.
Élisabeth managed to escape on foot, but Djandoubi caught up with her and strangled her. That same summer he kidnapped another girl, who managed to escape and tell everything to the police.
Arrested after a few months, Djandoubi was accused of torture and murder and sentenced to death.
The sentence was carried out on 10 September 1977, at 4.40 am, in the prison courtyard of Marseille.
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