The trial of an American mother and son, accused of incredible assassination attempts on the French father, was postponed to its opening on Friday January 21 before the Paris Assize Court, one of the defense lawyers being affected by Covid.
The trial, which was to last a week, could be held in May, the president of the court announced during a brief hearing.
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June Hopkins, 60, and her son Brendan Walsh, 30, are suspected of having spied for months, including with microphones, on Brendan's father, Gregory L., against the background of inheritance cases and family money.
Brendan Walsh is accused of having attempted to murder his father for the first time in 2010. He and his mother are also on trial for a second assassination attempt in 2015. They were then quickly arrested and placed in pre-trial detention.
June Hopkins, who tried to escape from prison in 2016 by tying up the sheets in her cell before falling six meters, was placed under judicial supervision in 2018, like her son.
They had fled to the United States where they were arrested in 2019, then extradited to France last February.