Frédéric Florès a appris le décès de sa fille alors qu'il était avec sa nouvelle compagne à la plage. J.-P A. – Midi Libre
Frédéric Florès is the father of Amandine who died on August 6, 2020 in atrocious conditions. Present for the trial which begins this Monday, January 20 in Montpellier, before the Assize Court of Hérault, he awaits explanations from the mother, his ex-partner and her companion. The truth. The reasons for this relentlessness against his daughter.
Frédéric Florès, Amandine's father, remembers as if it were yesterday this August 6, 2020, when he was told of his daughter's death. “I was at the beach, carefree. I didn't understand what was happening when they told me: “There was a problem, Amandine is dead.” Well, I think I didn't want to understand.”
“Her eyes spoke to me, the rest was a horror”
It was only the next day that the father of the 13-year-old girl collapsed in front of his work colleagues. Then in front of his child, whom he no longer recognized at the Montpellier morgue. “It was the eyes, her eyes, that spoke to me. The rest was horror. Auschwitz! You can't imagine it if you haven't seen it. Yes, it's the last image I was left with of Amandine. Fortunately I have photos to see her smile again. Months have passed, I still see her again and finally, even tortured, I still see her beauty. But this vision of my little girl still haunts me.”
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000“I expect to hear and see horrors”
Frédéric Florès did not want to learn much about the case that will be debated all this week before the Hérault assizes. “I know the essentials. But I admit, I'm anxious. I expect to hear and see horrors. I dread this week. I know that all this will hurt me. But I want to understand why my daughter suffered so much. I've been waiting and dreading the answers for four years.”
The anger is there, buried. Amandine, exhausted, died of a heart attack associated with septicemia, caused by serious negligence. She was 1.55 m tall and weighed only 28 kg this summer 2020.
“I expect everything and nothing at the same time”
“I expect justice to be done for Amandine from this trial. That the judgment is commensurate with the cruelty of what this little girl has endured. The more I think about it, the more ambiguous my feelings are about this trial. I expect everything and nothing at the same time. It will be necessary to prove that she (Sandrine Pissarra, Editor's note) is a manipulator, a bad mother and he (Jean-Michel Cros, Editor's note) is not just an actor. He never said stop.”
Frédéric Florès looks back on the years he spent with Amandine's mother. “I didn't see anything. I was in love. I would say that I was under her influence and she knew how to do it. It was when I left her that I opened my eyes to what she really was. Then, I understood that I was doing what she forced me to do. It's hard to say… – Frédéric Florès takes a little time, breathes in and lets go– but when I refused her something I took hits.”
“Their version is an insult to Amandine”
Mes Florian Medico and Luc Abratckiewicz will defend the interests of Frédéric Florès, Amandine's father. While they do not have to decide on the sentence, they are waiting for the accused to finally surrender. “We are waiting for people to stop disputing the indisputable. Let's be clear, we are waiting for a big step forward for Amandine's memory. They must stop saying they didn't see anything. That's enough. They had cameras to monitor the little girl, videos in hand since July. No, stop! Amandine died slowly in atrocious suffering and they are the only ones responsible. What this child went through is horrible. It is a real torture that we wouldn't even wish on an animal. And in all this, Cros comes to tell us that he loved Amandine like his daughter. But who can believe it. Maintaining that everything was fine is an aberration. Their version is a final suffering, an offense to Amandine, to her father too. They must tell her what happened."
In 2021, when the mother and stepfather were placed in pretrial detention, Frédéric Florès wanted his two other children to come back with him (he had them with the accused). They were both placed in a home. His ex-wife had filed a complaint against him for domestic violence. The eldest, an adult, works in Béziers, the youngest is still in the care of child welfare. After the trial, Amandine's father wants to recover his daughter's body to have it cremated. She is buried in the family vault of her father-in-law's family, in La Salvetat
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