Amandine, tried for having tried to have her ex-husband, Jimmy C., shot down in the forest of Bondy in 2016, confessed before the assizes of Seine-Saint-Denis to have ruminated on his criminal project for about a year.
During her questioning on Wednesday, she admitted to having "started to speak openly" about her intentions in front of her family, a "tight-knit" clan who likes to meet on Sundays around lunch, "Italian", had specified Michel S., Amandine's father at the opening of the debates.
“Initially, my daughter said she wanted to find someone to beat Jimmy,” explained this Thursday at the bar Michel, dark sweater and black pants.
Subject to pressing questions from the president, the patriarch ends up admitting to having played a role in the financing of the contract placed on Jimmy's head.
"I gave him 1500 euros"
“Amandine asked me for money to eliminate her.
It is there that I sold the car and that I gave him 1500 euros, recognized the retiree, who appears free for complicity in attempted assassination by organized gang.
"Did you knowingly donate the money?"
», Insists the president.
“Yes,” Michel replies, “but I didn't think she would go all the way.
The magistrate asks him if he considers having "acted like a father".
"Perhaps I should have been vigilant, talked more with her," stammers the accused.
“But at the time, I had just met my sweetheart.
I wouldn't say I wasn't thinking about it, but it was a little harmless ... My head was elsewhere.
"
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The president jumped up: "We are talking about the death of a man, and you, you are talking to us about your darling ... There is a gap anyway!
"Michel S.'s lawyer, Me Valérie Harif, resumes her client:" Mr S., I have been your lawyer for a long time.
Today I find your answers mind blowing, I am stunned.
She asks him if he is "aware" that his daughter's criminal project was "monstrous".
"Yes," he replies in an uncertain voice.
"I never took her seriously"
Amandine's older brother, Jérémy S., also admitted that his sister "often spoke of her intentions, out of anger".
“I told him these were the wrong things to do.
But I never took it seriously, ”he also said on Thursday.
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This father of three children is also being prosecuted for complicity in an assassination attempt: he is accused of having put his sister in touch with Julien M., who would have played the intermediary between Amandine and Jonathan R., the alleged "recruiter" of the hitman.
"For me, Julien makes contact with Jonathan for a romantic encounter with my sister," he defended himself in court.
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Jérémy's former companion, Anne-Lise B., is for her part accused of "voluntary abstention from preventing a crime".
The young woman, presented in the file as "the confidante" of Amandine, also denied having known that her ex-sister-in-law had ordered the assassination of her ex.
"I thought she wanted to make her break her mouth"
“I was aware of his intentions, but not of his criminal plan.
It can happen to say that you want to kill someone.
But from there to take action… I thought she wanted to make him break his mouth, ”she hammered at the bar this Friday.
In one voice, Michel, Jérémy and Anne-Lise all affirmed, in front of the court, to have fallen from their chairs when they learned, the day after the events, that Amandine had been placed in police custody.
