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Hanged wife, sacrificed lover, suspect husband: the enigma of the bloody cave at the assizes

2021-01-17T15:58:44.345Z


Remi Chesne is tried from Monday in Montpellier (Hérault) alongside Audrey Louvet, who would have served as bait, for the assassination of the a


He had left his service as usual, around 4:15 p.m., without showing the slightest sign of concern.

Quite the contrary… On June 23, 2014, Patrick Isoird, 49, maintenance worker at the hospital in Sète (Hérault), told his colleague that he had a romantic date with an old sentimental relationship, lost sight of for many years. years.

He won't appear alive again.

His scooter, containing his jacket, his cigarettes and his cell phone, was quickly found, parked in front of the Py cemetery, known in Sète to house the tomb of Georges Brassens.

But Patrick Isoird, him, has vanished.

His body was located three weeks later, about a hundred meters away, at the bottom of a cave dug into the side of Mont Saint-Clair, which overlooks Sète.

The partially charred body shows traces of links and two bullet holes.

The sign of an execution.

Quickly identified, Audrey Louvet, 32, admits having seen Patrick Isoird that day - as evidenced by the CCTV images - but says he ignores everything else.

It is a friend, she specifies, that he dropped her off at the meeting place.

A certain Rémi Chesne, hairdresser at home, who was just passing by.

Coincidence?

Her telephony reveals, from mid-June, cross exchanges between her, Patrick Isoird and Rémi Chesne… as if she systematically reported to the second of her discussions with the first.

But Audrey Louvet and Rémi Chesne erased their correspondence.

And on June 23, their respective phones are switched off in the time slot corresponding to the disappearance of Patrick Isoird.

Disturbing Internet searches

The hairdresser, meanwhile, simply cut the pages of his diary corresponding to the fateful week.

And his smartphone is full of disturbing Internet searches: “alibi”, “attract”, “ignite”, “gasoline”, “cemetery”… But, without admission or formal proof, the investigation slows down.

Until in March 2016, after the broadcast of a program devoted to the case, a witness appeared: Audrey Louvet would have confided to him having served as bait to lure Patrick Isoird into the cave.

The idea of ​​an ambush orchestrated by Rémi Chesne is no longer in doubt for the investigators, who question the duo.

But what could be the motive?

Rémi Chesne and Patrick Isoird are not strangers.

But you have to go back five years, almost to the day, to find a link between the two men.

And not the least.

Patrick Isoird was found killed by two rifle shots on July 17, 2014./DR  

On Sunday July 5, 2009 in the early morning, Nadège Chesne, Rémi's wife, was found hanged in the family garage.

According to a writing in his hand, she would have killed herself, consumed by guilt after an adventure the day before with a colleague named… Patrick Isoird.

A suicide surrounded by quirks, starting with the letter, strewn with apologies and details about the sexual relationship, but without a word for those close to him, especially his daughter.

Patrick Isoird is amazed: Nadège seemed happy, decided to leave her husband.

As for the jurists, skeptical of the streaks on the hanged woman's neck, they do not exclude the intervention of a third party.

But the case was at the time classified as suicide.

"The two cases are totally intertwined"

Those close to Nadège have never believed it.

“The letter is his handwriting, but all shaken.

For me, he was made to write ”, confided René Chicard, his father, in 2017, amazed that his son-in-law had Nadège cremated on the sly, without even warning him of his suicide… Persuaded that the death of his daughter and that of Patrick Isoird are the work of the same hand, the man filed a murder complaint, leading to the reopening of the case ... which has not moved an inch since.

"The idea of ​​a double revenge five years apart does not hold a second," sweeps Me Luc Abratkiewicz, one of Rémi Chesne's lawyers, stressing that he is not blamed for the death of his wife.

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This is all the ambiguity of the trial which opens this Monday before the Assize Court of Hérault, during which Rémi Chesne, detained since 2016 and Audrey Louvet, released last June and who appears free, must answer for the assassination of Patrick Isoird.

The hairdresser at home, charged by his co-accused, denies en bloc.

"The two cases are completely intertwined, abounds Me Jean-Marc Darrigade, lawyer of relatives of Patrick Isoird and those of Nadège Chesne, united by a common conviction.

This suicide will necessarily be addressed, which is also the thesis of the prosecution, and it irrigates the whole file: the Isoird affair actually starts in 2009!

"

The doubts of the jurists

“Here is a man who does not support his wife expressing the idea of ​​leaving him.

Hesitant, she may have hanged herself, or we hanged her… Ruminating on his narcissistic wound for years, he will then use my client to go and kill his rival ”, summarizes Me Gérard Christol, Audrey's lawyer Louvet.

A young woman whom he presents as easily influenced, drawn into this story under a false pretext - the collection of a debt - and without knowing the real intentions of Rémi Chesne.

The entrance to the cave in which Patrick Isoird was found dead in June 2014, near Sète. / PHOTOPQR / LE MIDI LIBRE / Vincent Andorra  

The lawyers of this one intend to exploit the weaknesses of the file, in the first place the declarations - evolving - of Audrey Louvet.

"How do you give credit to a woman who has given seven different versions and constantly contradicts herself?"

She herself was in contact with other men, one of whom terminated his telephone line the day after the disappearance ”, tackles Me Abratkiewicz.

“We have no weapon, no DNA, no witness.

We do not know for sure either where and when Patrick Isoird was killed, ”points out Me Frank Berton, another defender of Rémi Chesne.

The penalist underlines the doubts of the jurists on the date of death, the acoustic studies: "To shoot in this cave, it is the assurance of having the eardrum burst!

One of the many gray areas in this case, the examination of which is due to last until January 27.

The accused face life imprisonment.

LANDMARKS

July 5, 2009.

Nadège Chesne, 38, is found hanged in the garage of the family villa in Sète (Hérault).

The investigation concludes with suicide.

June 23, 2014.

Patrick Isoird, Nadège's ex-lover, disappears.

July 17, 2014.

His body is discovered partially charred in a cave near Sète.

He was killed with two rifle shots.

March 31, 2016.

Rémi Chesne, husband of Nadège, and Audrey Louvet, who would have served as bait for an ambush, are arrested.

August 2016.

Audrey Louvet confesses and overwhelms Rémi Chesne.

June 2017.

Nadège's father files a murder complaint, suspecting his ex-son-in-law of having staged the suicide of his daughter.

The investigation is reopened.

May 3, 2018.

Rémi Chesne and Audrey Louvet are sent back to the assizes for assassination.

The lawyers of the first appeal.

January 18, 2021.

The trial of Rémi Chesne and Audrey Louvet opens before the Assize Court of Hérault.

Source: leparis

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