A sentence of life imprisonment was required Friday against the three defendants prosecuted since Monday before the Assize Court of Finistère for their involvement, to varying degrees, in the murder of a baker in August 2018 and the attempt assassination of his companion.
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The prison sentence was accompanied by a two-thirds safety period for the three accused, namely the wife of the victim from whom he had been separated for two years, Fabienne Mehens, her new companion, Yves Brassier , as well as the former partner and friend of the latter, Olivier Coudray.
The first two, aged 50, are accused of complicity in assassination and of complicity in attempted assassination, while the third, aged 41, is being prosecuted for assassination and attempted assassination.
Vincent Calvez, 44, had received two bullets in the head on 23 August 2018 shortly after midnight, shot at point blank range by Olivier Coudray, a former soldier, as he was preparing to leave his home, an isolated farmhouse located in Plonévez-du-Faou, to go to work.
His partner, Marie G., aged 27 and present at the hearing, was also shot in the head, but miraculously recovered.
Advocate General Jean-Baptiste Doubliez referred to a "
relentless mechanism
" to describe the macabre ambush imagined by Fabienne Mehens, "
a stupid idea
" for the latter who would not have accepted that her husband left her.
“
It was thought of as a professional job
,” he continues.
Yves Brassier had driven the vehicle in which Olivier-Coudray, the author of the shots, had been promised the sum of 7,500 euros.
He then waited for him in the car while the henchman, without bothering to hide his face, coldly executed Vincent Calvez and seriously injured his young companion.
The verdict is expected late Friday evening.