On February 20, 2016, Kevin Rouxel showed up at the gendarmerie in Hasparren, in the hinterland of the Basque Country, accompanied by his wife and their two-year-old daughter in their arms.
He is stained with blood, seriously injured in the thigh.
In a disjointed speech, he alerts the gendarmes that a tragedy has just occurred on his parents' farm.
The property is located on the heights of Bastide-Clairence, a typical village with its white buildings with green or red half-timbering.
A few minutes earlier, the whole family had gathered to celebrate Kevin's birthday.
But he never blew his 23 candles.
When the soldiers entered the house, the mother, Ewa, was lying in a pool of blood in the dining room.
She was shot with a bullet that lodged in her chest.
The lifeless body of the father, Pascal,
is lying on the kitchen floor, shot in the head, neck and back.
Only the younger brother Yann remains unscathed, prostrate on a chair in the farmyard, in a state of shock.
Six years later, Kevin Rouxel appears from Monday, October 3 before the Court of Appeal of Mont-de-Marsan (Landes) in what some now call the "
cursed trial
".
He is accused of having fomented the assassination of his parents, with the help of his ex-girlfriend, against the backdrop of an inheritance dispute.
After being sentenced at first instance to 30 years in prison, he, at the opening of his appeal trial in January, blamed his imaginary twin "
Michaël Alpha
", demanding a DNA test.
The president had therefore been forced to postpone the hearing in order to carry out a psychiatric expertise.
A family "in autarky"
To understand the disastrous spiral into which the Rouxels have fallen...
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