Unemployed engineer Gabriel Fortin, accused of having killed three people in January 2021 in Drôme, Ardèche and Haut-Rhin and of having tried to kill a fourth, refused to participate in a reconstruction on Tuesday April 5, told
Le Figaro
a judicial source close to the case, confirming information from Le
Parisien
.
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A reconstruction which aims to replay the murder of Estelle Luce, in Wolfgantzen, in the Haut-Rhin, in the parking lot of the Knauf company.
But, like the reconstructions of December 14, 2021 and March 16, 2022, Gabriel Fortin locked himself in his silence, refusing to collaborate, according to the daily.
The victims had fired the main suspect
On December 14, 2021, Gabriel Fortin had already refused to cooperate in the reconstruction of the assassination of a Pôle Emploi counselor shot dead in Valence.
On March 16, 2022, when it came to reconstituting the assassination of the director of human resources of the company Faun Environnement, in Guilherand-Granges, in Ardèche, the main suspect had objected the same refusal.
The investigators had made the link between the murder of Estelle Luce and the aggression, a few days later, of a human resources manager at his home in Wattwiller, in the Haut-Rhin: these two people had proceeded to the dismissal of the suspect.
They then associated these crimes with the assassination of the Pôle Emploi adviser in Valence and that of the human resources director of Faun Environnement: Gabriel Fortin had been removed from this Pôle Emploi agency in 2013 and he had worked at Faun Environnement between 2008 and 2010.
Contacted by
Le Figaro
, the parquet floor of Valence indicated that no information will be given before the end of the reconstitution.