Until now, he had shouted his innocence in the poisonings which, almost three times, nearly cost the life of Suzanne Bailly, in 2015 in Le Cannet (Alpes-Maritimes). Olivier Cappelaere, suspected of having wanted to "remove" this nonagenarian to recover his two-room apartment bought for life, changed feet. The 50-year-old former manager, tried on appeal in Aix-en-Provence, now admits to having "slipped" atropine - a cardiac accelerator - into his water bottle, but only to "make her sick" "...
Risky strategy: after three days of hearing, the Advocate General demanded this Thursday against him thirty years of imprisonment with a two-thirds security sentence. Far from the twenty years that he had received in first instance, in March 2019 in Nice.
A "crime of cowardice and slyness", according to the Advocate General, which could also have been fatal to Gabriel Marino Affaitati, a neighbor who came to rescue Suzanne Bailly and who, too, had been taken to the emergency room after having drank this “bitter-tasting” water… “The judicial future will tell us how many victims you have made, but Ms. Bailly, you missed it! ", Besides had tancée the lawyer of this one, Me Jean-Charles Darey. An allusion to another poisoning of old lady for which Olivier Cappelaere is under investigation: Jacqueline Imbert, died suddenly in 2014 by bequeathing her more than 500,000 euros.
Wiretapping Completed Torpedoing His Defense
A second file whose shadow hovered over the entire audience, and undermined the credibility of Olivier Cappelaere. The debates thus showed his problematic relationship to the truth, including in intimacy. HIV positive, he has delivered a multitude of versions on how he contracted HIV and the date on which he became infected, probably not assuming the fact of having infected his own wife.
Likewise, he clumsily justified his visits to gay pornography sites by a "silent and minority investment in a sauna with a homosexual tendency". What he says also explain the many cash deposits in the common account. "I did not manage our finances," evacuated his wife at the helm, yet an accountant by profession, who would therefore have known nothing.
His brother and sister, who came to testify on his behalf, were not of much help. "For the second ( Editor's note: Suzanne Bailly ), he told me that he had done it so that she would die [...] he was not in denial". Cited at the hearing, their wiretapping completed torpedoing the defense of Olivier Cappelaere, who nevertheless swore in good faith at the whim of several tearful monologues.
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"The lament of a detained man who feels sorry for himself," retorted Mr. Darey, pointing to his cruelty towards Suzanne Bailly, a semilless retiree with modest joys: the mimosas from the French Riviera, her little dog, a sauerkraut between neighbors ... "And for what noble cause? The money! Because you could not bear to reduce your lifestyle, to give up luxury watches and beautiful cars, had summarized the lawyer. Do not be displeased, Mr. Poisoner, Mrs. Bailly, she is still there! "