The recording of Elodie Kulik's call for help was broadcast on Wednesday June 16 on the third day of Willy Bardon's appeal trial before the Pas-de-Calais assizes, the lawyers opposing the weight of this piece , chilling but of poor quality, in the file.
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The victim's father, Jacky Kulik, left the courtroom before the harrowing soundtrack was released. The court then listened, frozen, to the 26 seconds of the call passed at 12:21 am to the firefighters, in which we hear the cries and moans of the victim and the
repeated
"
hello
" of the firefighter operator. At least two male voices are audible there, but far away. One of them was confused by his DNA, found at the crime scene. Died in 2003, this alleged assailant, Grégory Wiart, could not be tried.
During the investigation, five people taken into police custody and to whom the recording had been subjected claimed to recognize the voice of Willy Bardon, in January 2013. Immediately after this call, the firefighters tried to call back but came across the young woman's messaging, recalled the president.
A "
centerpiece
" of the dossier
One of the civil party lawyers, Didier Seban, insisted on the importance of hearing this "
centerpiece
" of the case from the start of the trial, in order to fully understand the unfolding of events. The lawyers of Willy Bardon have on the contrary underlined the need to "
handle it with caution
" and to make it listen to the jurors again after the passage of the vocal experts. The recording was the subject of 14 expert opinions during the investigation carried out from 2002 to 2017. "
I think that the experts will say that (this recording) cannot be used in the context of a criminal trial
" one of Willy Bardon's lawyers, Me Gabriel Dumenil, told the press. It evokes a soundtrack "
inaudible, on which we can not even distinguish what the protagonists say, which dates from 2002 and to which we come to compare voices from 2013
", considering that"
all this is a hoax
".
Willy Bardon's trial trial was marked by his suicide attempt, just after the verdict was delivered.
He had been convicted of rape, kidnapping and forcible confinement followed by death, but acquitted of the count of "
murder
".
The 24-year-old banker was found strangled, stripped and partially charred on January 11, 2002 in Tertry (Somme), six kilometers from her damaged car.
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