Jacqueline Sauvage (27 December 1947 — 23 July 2020) of Montargis, France, killed her husband Norbert Marot by shooting him in the back three times with a hunting rifle on 10 September 2012.
On 26 February 2017, a French TV show named "Sept à Huit" received extremely high ratings with five million viewers, due to a segment profiling Jacqueline Sauvage.
[3] Régis de Castelnau, lawyer and author of the blog Vu du Droit (In Terms of Law) mentioned a "cult of the innocent guilty" created by the public opinion through the media, with only partial information given about the case.
This was backed-up by the lawyer Florence Rault, who denounced the media treatment on this case, first on her blog and later published by the Figarovox, saying there was a will to "promote a victimizing feminism and to affirm the impossibility of the existence of female violence".
In an article published by Le Figaro, the philosopher Robert Redeker also contested the pardon, which he considered to be "an insult to democracy motivated by a victimizing ideology".
Another philosopher, Michel Onfray, questioned the relevance of the pardon, undermining multiple court decisions and potentially opening the way to self-defence and personal vendettas.
For Marie-Jane Ody, Secretary General of the Union Syndicale of Magistrates, the whole work done during the trial is being denied by the executive power which rules only according to a support committee.
She asked for the removal of the presidential pardon, "survival of the royal power", considered incompatible with democracy and the idea of a fair and independent justice.