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Bacot trial: "In this story, there is nothing that goes, from start to finish"

2021-06-27T03:43:19.036Z


HEARING REPORT - From Monday to Friday, Valérie Bacot is on trial in Chalon-sur-Saône for having murdered her stepfather, who became her husband, who beat her and prostituted her.


Valérie Bacot is a very small size.

She almost disappears between her relatives, many who came to support her at her trial for

"murder"

before the Assize Court of Saône-et-Loire.

When she comes forward, alone, at the bar, she looks tiny in the face of the three judges and six jurors responsible for deciding her fate.

In a trembling voice, almost inaudible, she announces her intention to deliver to this audience a "

last fight

" against Daniel Polette, her former father-in-law who became her husband, whom she nevertheless admits having killed on March 13, 2016.

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The first time that Valérie Bacot, then a child, sees Daniel Polette, the latter is in bed with his mother.

He moved in with them, and a few months later, the rapes began.

He didn't want me to lock the bathroom.

He was putting cream on me.

The more days went by, the further it went.

He said to me “Let it go, it's for you, you'll thank me when you grow up”.

He was penetrating me with his fingers,

”she sobs.

Further penetrations follow.

At the start, I didn't let it go.

Afterwards, I understood that it was better that I let myself go if I wanted it to go quickly.

"

"I was his"

Two sisters of Daniel Polette warn the authorities. At first, the young girl does not reveal anything. “

I was afraid of him,

” she explains. But a gynecological examination confirms that Valérie has been raped numerous times, and the teenager gives herself up. Sentenced to four years in prison, the truck driver ended up "

coming home

".

“My mother never told me anything but it was obvious that she was very angry with me [for the departure of Daniel Polette, Editor's note]. When he returned, she became happy again

,

recalls Valérie Bacot. For the latter, the ordeal resumes. “

It started again,

” she says. “

I didn't really understand, I did as he told me.

"

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At 17, the young woman became pregnant and moved in with Daniel Polette. Four children are born from this union, marked by the psychological and physical violence inflicted on Valérie Bacot by her spouse. Accusing his wife of "

bringing nothing home

", Daniel Polette goes so far as to force the latter to prostitute herself. He creates business cards, sets up his car and tattoos "

Dany

" on Valérie Bacot's pubis, "

so that customers understand that I was his

", says the accused. During the passes, Daniel Polette monitors the young woman from outside the vehicle and gives her instructions via an earpiece. "

Then I gave him the money and sometimes it was his turn ...

», Remembers the now forty-something.

"Fear" for his daughter

Meanwhile, Daniel Polette and Valérie Bacot's daughter is growing up.

On Saturday March 12, 2016, when she was 14 years old, her father asked her "

how she is sexually, her measurements and what she can do

", according to the girl's boyfriend, Lucas, who has testified at length this Monday afternoon.

These words upset Valérie Bacot and arouse in her "

a great fear that [Daniel Polette] prostitutes [his daughter]

".

I didn't know what to do,

” she insists.

Quite precise so far, his memories are suddenly blurred.

On Sunday March 13 in the morning, Stilnox is added in Daniel Polette's coffee.

By whom exactly?

Lucas or Valérie Bacot, who have become very close?

Why?

"

So that he does not wake up,

" said the accused during her previous hearings;

"

So that he sleeps and that we are quiet in the afternoon,

" she says today.

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Lucas first goes in the same direction as the accused. But when the president pointed out to him that he had not presented this version to the Mâcon juvenile court, the young man, now 21, admitted: "

Valérie and I, we wanted him not to wake up. not so that he does not continue to hurt

”. "

Is there talk of killing him then?"

“, Wants to know the president. "

Yes

", replies the witness. Before turning around again and adding, after a question from one of the defense lawyers, that Valérie Bacot never told her explicitly that she wanted to take her husband's life. “

You said one thing and its opposite. Where is the truth?

», Annoys the president.

"Protect me from him"

On the evening of March 13, an appointment is made with a client that Valérie Bacot particularly fears.

"

I didn't know that they had agreed on something particular…

", she finally let go, sobbing.

She refuses, "

the client does it by force

" while Daniel Polette "

shouts at her

" in the headset.

At the end of the pass, she grabs the weapon she has hidden in the vehicle, brandishes it between the headrest and the chair on which Daniel Polette is seated and fires.

I just remember closing my eyes, that smell, that light.

"

Did you want to kill your husband?

», Asks the president.

"

No

", replies the accused.

"

What did you want to do?

"

I don’t know.

Protect me from him.

"

"

Did you think about killing your husband before that evening?"

"

"

No.

"

"Mixed"

After the facts, Valérie Bacot warns Lucas, "

the only person who knew what [she was going through]

", then her three elders.

With Lucas and her two sons, she buries the remains in a wood.

"

She saved her life, I helped to hide the body and that brought us here

", comments briefly Lucas, sentenced to six months in prison suspended for "

concealing a corpse

" in November 2019.

In the spring of 2016, the disappearance of Daniel Polette does not worry many people. For their part, Lucas and the Polette family never leave each other, and the young man's relationship with Valérie Bacot evolves. “

She went from the potential mother to the confidante, then to the friend, then… to the point that I loved her more than her daughter

”, explains the witness, embarrassed. A "

three-four month

"

relationship ensues

. “

Looking back, what do you think of this mix?

“, Wants to know the president. Response from the witness, who sums it all up in one sentence: “

Honestly, it was a big mess, that in this story, there is nothing going, from start to finish.

"

Source: lefigaro

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