The Hérault Assize Court on Friday, December 17 condemned the owner of the "
favorite garden of the French
", Daniel Malgouyres, to 18 years imprisonment for having organized his own burglary in 2017, against the backdrop of a tumultuous divorce, and killed a criminals in Servian (Hérault).
After 11 hours of deliberation, the jury found him guilty of having organized an attempted extortion on his own wife, Françoise Malgouyres, during a false "
home jacking
" in their property near Béziers, the "
Jardins de Saint-Adrien
”.
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Daniel Malgouyres, 72, against whom the attorney general had called for 30 years in prison, was not in self-defense when he shot dead one of the two burglars, David Viers, 43, a also estimated the Assize Court. Richard Llop, a 56-year-old horse breeder who was close to the Malgouyres couple, was sentenced to eight years in prison for organizing the burglary. Richard Bruno, 57, the surviving burglar, received a seven-year prison sentence. The attorney general had demanded 18 years of imprisonment against these two men.
Daniel Malgouyres, who was also being prosecuted for attempted murder on Richard Bruno for shooting in his direction as he fled, was acquitted of this charge. "
I am totally innocent
", launched from the box of the accused Daniel Malgouyres, who has 10 days to appeal his conviction. His lawyers had pleaded the acquittal on Thursday, believing that the prosecution had devised a "
fable
" that it had failed to support with irrefutable evidence, despite four years of investigation and three weeks of a high-profile trial . Jean-Pierre Bruno, 81 years old, the father of Richard Bruno, accused of having helped Richard Llop to recruit the two burglars, will be tried later, his state of health does notnot allowing his appearance this fall.
