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Val-d'Oise: the scary story of the death of Cécile, 44, shot dead by her ex-husband

2021-01-02T18:22:35.541Z


The man who took refuge with his wife before killing her in their Domont business on December 17, had already been the subject of two convictions. The victim was refused a protective measure.


The facts took place in a small landscaping company in Val d'Oise on Thursday, December 17.

The first information that evening shows a man entrenched with his ex-wife in the warehouse of Verte Entreprise, in Domont, about twenty kilometers from Paris.

The gendarmerie had been called a little earlier by a woman for acts of violence committed by her ex-husband against two of their employees, wounded by gunshot.

Sent there, the GIGN will not be able to contact the author of the shots.

A robot then sent there will quickly discover the lifeless bodies of the woman and her ex-spouse.

The Pontoise public prosecutor's office will open an investigation for assassination, attempted assassination and sequestration.

Behind the apparent Parisian news story, there is the epilogue of a “

feminicide

”.

Cécile Piquet was the 93rd woman killed by her companion or ex-companion in France in 2020. In the process of divorce for two years, the 44-year-old victim had already filed a complaint on numerous occasions against her husband, with whom she shared the management of the company, for harassment and violence.

The latter was sentenced in 2019 to twelve months in prison suspended, then a revocation of the suspension with three months firm last September.

Imprisonment that he ultimately never carried out, by virtue of an adjustment of sentence.

"

This man told me that anyway, he would kill her and pursue her until the last day,"

Pierre Piquet, the victim's father, told AFP.

"It's a failure, I failed, she died."

"It was written,"

said coldly to the

Parisian

Rémi, a friend of the couple.

"I said to myself: either he commits suicide or he kills her"

.

Dominique Guyard, 58, will have finally done both.

Convictions and sentence adjustment

The premises of Verte Entreprise, the landscaping company they had founded together, have been the scene of a long series of physical and verbal violence.

It is there, on November 28, 2018, that a terrible scene occurs which pushes Cécile to leave her husband and to take refuge with her father with her three daughters, now aged 9, 12 and 14 years old: “

Cécile has He was beaten, he threw her on the ground, he dragged her down the stairs, he threw her outside, the children were upstairs and they lived it like a nightmare, ”

recalls the grieving father.

Yet it was the site of the professional success of a mismatched couple,

"a casting error"

for some,

"a mixed marriage"

for others.

Dominique Guyard, from a working-class background, met Cécile Piquet in 2000. The man, divorced and father of two children, was then the internship supervisor for the engineering student in a landscape school.

His marriage to a woman fourteen years younger, a brilliant graduate, fervent Catholic and very involved in the parish, is for this "

self-made man

" the accomplishment of a social rise.

The couple founded their company with Dominique's brother: business was going well.

The couple bought a pretty house and in 2014 invested in a restaurant at the Enghien-Moselle aerodrome.

Against a background of alcohol, insults or bullying soon come, and physical intimidation is becoming more and more fervent.

A "

cold act

"

The divorce proceedings open the door to a two-year escalation of violence.

“This murder is a cold act.

He had long months to mature his action,

”believes the lawyer of the forties, Me Yves Beddouk.

“He terrorized Cécile.

We knew he was dangerous.

"

After the departure of the victim of the marital home, Dominique Guyard is engaged in the business in various meanness and bullying.

“He was posting his alimony check on the staff communication panel with a big lettering 'for the dirty bitch.'

He soiled the female-only toilet and prohibited staff from cleaning.

He always tried to humiliate the woman as such, ”

says the lawyer.

The man vandalized his stepfather's car, increased physical and verbal violence against his ex-wife.

In March, he spat in his face, as well as that of his employees: in September, he was sentenced to three months in prison.

Soon, he will lose custody rights of his children, then his business, after acts of embezzlement.

He was "

dispossessed of everything, rejected

", pleads his lawyer Me Maryam Hajji.

She wants to see in the death of Cécile and that of her client the "

gesture of a cornered man

".

Could we imagine that the man would go so far as to take his ex-wife hostage, and kill her?

For two years, I accompanied my daughter to her workplace because she did not feel safe,”

laments Pierre Piquet, her father, aged 80.

"The gendarmes laughed at us, we were never taken seriously," he

adds.

“Cécile has filed around twenty complaints.

There were two tons of files ”,

affirms Me Yves Beddouk.

In 2019, Cécile made a request for protection, refused by the family affairs judge, who considered that she was not in danger in the company.

"The institution has done its job, with the means at hand"

, judge Me Beddouk.

“Regarding domestic violence, I used to say that justice works like a mountaineer in thong.

There are neither the means nor the necessary mechanisms to enforce the penalties and ensure the follow-up of dangerous individuals. ”

During his last meeting with Dominique Guyard, the lawyer remembers a man

"mad with anger, screaming with foam on his lips"

.

In mid-November, the lawyer had proposed financial arrangements to conclude the divorce.

“Not being able to get him away, we tried to calm things down, hoping that he would resume his life.

Why did the gendarmes take this lightly?

Because they were overwhelmed to see Madame Piquet come back every week for two years. ”

For his father Pierre,

"the legal system has done the best but has undervalued everything"

.

"Justice has failed,"

he said.

In 2020, 97 women died from the blows of their partner or ex-partner.

Source: lefigaro

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