Already sentenced to 18 years of imprisonment for a first assassination in the Alpes-Maritimes and currently retried on appeal for a second, Michel Lambin, also nicknamed "
the shepherd in the middle
", could also appear at the assizes for two other premeditated murders.
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The investigating chamber of the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal in fact decided on April 6 to send "
the shepherd of Caussols
" back to the Alpes-Maritimes for the murder of two men, Farid Errachdi and Jean -Félix Leca, whom he had lodged in his farm in Bayou, said Monday, April 12 a judicial source confirming information from
Nice Matin
.
The decision is not final, however, because Michel Lambin's lawyer, Me Bernard Ginez, appealed to the Supreme Court, the same source said.
The investigative chamber which controls the work of the judges had been seized by the lawyer of members of the families of the victims, Me Jean-Pascal Padovani, after a dismissal rendered by an investigating judge of Nice on June 16, 2017 "
It is for the families a comfort and a feeling of justice even if they know that nothing has been acquired yet
", welcomed to AFP Me Padovani.
Aged 70, diminished by paralyzing sciatica which forces him to appear stretched out, Michel Lambin, a former robber turned goatherd, is currently being retried on appeal in Aix-en-Provence for the assassination in 2002 of a security guard. school.
At first instance, he was sentenced to life imprisonment with 22 years of security.
A dozen murders, according to his ex-girlfriend
During this trial, his ex-partner Nicole Rossi, had implicated him for a dozen murders carried out, according to her, out of love rivalry, revenge or for gambling debts of the men around her.
She had notably accused him of having boiled the head of one of his victims in a pressure cooker or of having, on another occasion, tasted human flesh seasoned "
with garlic and parsley.
".
Still according to his testimony, Lambin would have welcomed in the spring of 2001 in his sheepfold three escaped individuals including Jean-Félix Leca, known as “
Le Corse
”, accompanied by a young North African, Farid Errachdi who served as their driver.
Blaming Farid for the hijacking of a bracelet from a robbery, he allegedly killed him with a handgun before butchering his body and feeding it to the pigs, according to his ex-companion.
A few days later, he would also have "
killed Corsica
" whom he accused of scheming against him.
After cutting his body, he would have burned it, still according to Nicole Rossi.
Michel Lambin was definitively sentenced in 2011 to 18 years imprisonment for the assassination of a convicted offender, Jean-Yves Guerrée.