The Orléans general prosecutor's office appealed the acquittal before the Indre-et-Loire Assize Court of the former Paris firefighter, accused of having suffocated a nonagenarian with a madeleine, announced Thursday, May 19 court of Appeal.
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Accused of murder, the 63-year-old man was found innocent on May 13 in Tours, after three days of trial, after three years of imprisonment.
The jury had not followed the requisitions of the public prosecutor who claimed twenty years of imprisonment against the former soldier.
His lawyers, Masters Abed Bendjador father and son, had welcomed "
a logical decision, which comes three years too late
".
During the three days of hearing, they had pointed out the gray areas of a "
scandalous
" police investigation.
Yvette B., 92, resident in an Alzheimer unit in a Tours nursing home, was found dead on May 13, 2019, in her bed, pieces of cake in her mouth.
The accused had just visited him, bringing a package of industrial madeleines.
The former Paris firefighter had taken out a life annuity in 1995 on a family home of the victim.
