Simone Weber was sentenced in 1991 to 20 years in prison for the murder of her companion Bernard Hettier. She was on the other hand acquitted of that of her second husband, Marcel Fixard.
She had lived on the French Riviera since her release in 1999. “The diabolical Nancy’ died this Thursday morning at the age of 93 in Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes), her lawyer Liliane Glock announced to AFP. The former philosophy professor distinguished herself by a vigorous defense, notably against her investigating judge, Gilbert Thiel, in her epic trial in Meurthe-et-Moselle Assize Court in the 80s and 90s. The jurors did not find premeditation for the death of Bernard H Pettier. In 2016, she was outraged by the broadcast of a TV film devoted to her case, “an unthinkable ignominy” “ The one who explained that she had been living “a perpetual assassination” since her conviction.