From castle life to life behind bars.
Michael B., 47, and his wife Cécile, aged 42, were tried this Thursday for fraud by the criminal court of Versailles (Yvelines).
The couple had made the owner of the Château d'Émancé believe that they were going to buy the residence for the tidy sum of 9 million euros.
Their chatter helping, they had obtained from the chatelaine that they could settle there even before the transaction.
Which was never finalized.
They are accused of having ransacked the residence and of having resold some of the period furniture that was there, including a Louis XV table for 248,000 euros.
The total damage estimated at around 500,000 euros.
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