Franck Chevallier is suspected of having poisoned his mistress in order to reach more than 1.3 million euros in life insurance contracts. He was indicted for murder and abuse of weakness and then placed in pre-trial detention at the Ajaccio remand center.
After a year behind bars, he was released under judicial supervision on January 8. The opportunity for him to defend his version of the facts, even if it means slipping, sometimes in one sentence, from the tragic to the comic.