Jacqueline Sauvage to remain in jail

Jacqueline Sauvage, sentenced to ten years in prison for murdering her violent husband, has had her appeal for conditional release rejected by a Paris appeals court.

January 29, 2016 taken from an AFPTV video shows Sylvie (L), Fabienne (2ndL) and Carole Marot (R), daughters of Jacqueline Sauvage who shot her husband on September 10, 2012 after he abused her for decades, arriving with their lawyers at the Elysee Palace. AFP/TV

It its ruling, the court said that the request was premature as it came only a few months after original sentence was handed down and that she did not appear to have fully understood the impact of her act.

Her lawyers will disucss the ruling with her to decide on what the next steps should be.

Sauvage was sentenced on appeal in December to ten years imprisonment by a court in the department of Loir-et-Cher for the murder of her husband, who beat her for years and had raped their daughters.

The sentencing had generated a wave of support for her. It led to the demand by her daughters for a presidential pardon which was supported by many parliamentarians and personalities in France.

On January 31, 2016, Hollande granted a “partial” release which allowed her to immediately submit a request for conditional release.
That appeal has been rejected.

Earlier this year, a group supporting Sauvage launched a new petition calling for her “immediate release”.

The petition collected hundreds of thousands of signatures.