“I would have done like her”: Priscilla Majani sentenced to two years and nine months in prison

Many personalities and anonymous people hoped that she would relax, sharing a sentence on social networks for several weeks: “I would have done like her”. A petition, posted on Change.org, signed by more than 20,000 people, also asked for the release of Priscilla Majani, underlining that today she is “Even easier to prove, in the eyes of justice, NRE (non-representation of minors), escape, disappearance rather than incest, sexual assault and intra-family violence. »

Priscilla Majani convicted of “kidnapping and failure to represent a minor”

On Wednesday 4 January, Priscilla Majani was instead sentenced on appeal to two years and nine months’ imprisonment, a sentence accompanied by a ban on leaving the territory, and the deprivation of her civic, civil and family rights for three years. A less severe sentence than the one handed down in the first instance by the criminal court of Toulon last November 23, which in any case confirms the guilt of this 48-year-old mother, accused of “kidnapping and non-representation of a minor”, but also of “false and slanderous complaint” (for which she was finally acquitted by the Court of Appeal of Aix-en-Provence). She will also have to pay 30,000 euros to Alain Chauvet, her ex-husband and father of her daughter, as compensation for damages.

An escape that lasted eleven years

Priscilla Majani was arrested in August 2022 in Switzerland, during a traffic control, while she was the subject of an arrest warrant. In 2011 she disappeared with her then 5-year-old daughter, Camille, following a complaint filed against her ex-husband and father of her daughter, whom she accused of rape and sexual assault. The complaint had been filed, in particular because the child’s tone had been considered “recitative” during the hearings, and that the gynecological examination had not revealed the presence of physical traces of sexual violence.

Subsequently, Priscilla Majani lived in several countries before settling in Switzerland, where she lived under an assumed identity with her daughter. She was extradited after her arrest, then placed in pre-trial detention, she was sentenced in the first instance by the Criminal Court of Toulon to five years’ imprisonment, a sentence which she immediately contested.

New complaint filed

In its sentence delivered on January 4, the Court of Appeal of Aix-en-Provence considers it “Priscilla Majani placed herself in omnipotence, assuming the right to dispose of the life of the couple’s child in total disregard of the father’s rights, and although the child did not present, at the time of the complaint, any emotional disorder in his relationship with his father”.

Camille, who is now 17, was placed in a foster family and her guardianship was entrusted to a child protection service in Switzerland. Five days before Priscilla Majani’s appearance on appeal, she too had filed a complaint against her father for sexual, physical and psychological violence. A testimony accompanied by a video, in which the young woman reiterates her accusations, but judged by the court as simply allowing “to take charge of a part of the damage caused to this young woman”.