Trial of Ramon Cortès: Rosine Roig, chronicle of an announced death

On the second day of his appeal trial before the Assize Court of Hérault, Ramon Cortès, 50, remains in a very delicate position. At the first trial in Perpignan, this chronically inactive man was found guilty of the abduction and then the assassination of Rosine Roig, his partner and mother of their three children. And sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment.

His accomplice and lover Sandrine Delporte, 49, who had accompanied him in this murderous operation had received 18 years. Tuesday, the court walked through the dramatic labyrinth of summer 2013 which led to the drama of September 16, 2013 from 22:00. "We are shocked to see how many chimes have been actuated by Roseline Roig, who could have avoided the drama that we are examining here, but who have not been heard," exclaims President Pinarel who openly questions the inertia of the Céret gendarmes.

The president punctuates reports made to the brigade after two kidnappings and numerous alerts with no tangible result to channel unhealthy jealousy and above all repeated death threats. But never been taken seriously by the gendarmes.

“Spied on, threatened. I no longer dare to go to sleep at home ”

The letters to the prosecutor of August 14 and 19, 2016 still give rise to a hearing on September 13, three days before the facts. "I just want to live peacefully with my son in my apartment where I can no longer go. As it is on the ground floor, my former companion manages to pass through the window even with the shutters closed. I am constantly watched and threatened. I no longer dare to go to sleep at home. I ask for your protection, ”she explains at the height of her dismay and her fear of meeting Ramon.

"At work, she is gracious and smiling, never wanted to take time off because she was better at the museum than at home," said one of the managers of the establishment, where Rosine was an exemplary cleaning lady. In the last weeks she was in a lamentable state, very emaciated. We hosted her at home. When she got into the car, she spontaneously crouched in front of the paralyzed rear seat. And at home, she didn't even dare go out into the garden. "

A woman in love, but covered with bruises

“She worked hard at the museum, but also doing housework with private individuals and in the evening she came home to iron her shirts. And he, well dressed, went out. He is a sickly jealous. He timed his journey time to come home from work, ”says Annie Junca, a close friend who hosted Rosine and her son Nathan at the time of the abduction.

She describes a woman in love, but covered with bruises. She explains that Rosine wanted to turn the page on this infernal, seductive, lazy and unfaithful companion. In the box, entrenched behind his surgical mask, Ramon Cortès grumbles. He is regularly cropped by the president. And he is surprised. "I didn't know she was afraid of me. It is only now that I find out, "replies the presumed killer with confidence, tirelessly repeating his love and his will to recover his wife to resume a common life.

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Then he provides a new reading of the night of the assassination even more convoluted than the previous ones. And who totally exonerates him. Since necessarily as in each of the new versions of its defense, the handgun at the time of the shot, always ends up in the hand of Sandrine Delporte. Who of accomplice becomes the murderer.