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The Troadec affair: the phantom hoard and murderous madness

2021-06-26T16:53:50.830Z


The trial of a man, whose obsession for a supposed inheritance drove him to savagely kill his in-laws, opens in Nantes.


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It is seal number 36 that lost Hubert Caouissin.

A simple glass bearing his DNA, deposited in a sink, with which he had quenched his thirst as he tried to remove the pools of blood from a crime scene.

His trial opens this Tuesday, before the assizes of Loire-Atlantique.

On the night of February 16 to 17, 2017, this boiler-making technician massacred the family of his brother-in-law, Pascal Troadec, in their pavilion in Orvault, a town on the outskirts of Nantes.

The man, his wife Brigitte, their two children aged 18 and 20, Charlotte and Sébastien, are killed - according to the accused himself - with crowbar kicks.

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Then, Hubert Caouissin returned home to Pont-de-Buis, between Quimper and Brest.

His companion Lydie Troadec, Pascal's sister, brings him back to the scene of the carnage.

After a derisory day of cleaning, punctuated by a nap in the bed of one of the victims, the murderer loads the bodies into Sébastien Troadec's car,

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Source: lefigaro

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