"I am a person ..." The accused looks for his words, then states, in a calm voice: "calm, not resentful and respectful".
To see him with his graying hair cut short, inexpensive glasses, in a polo shirt and thin sweater revealing a budding belly;
hearing him unfold his life, precise, pleasant, with a little southern accent as a bonus, we readily believe him.
Barely two hours later, temperance is over.
Here is the same in the process of unpinning, ranting from the box of the Assize Court of Hérault, qualifying in turn his ex-father-in-law of “false ass”, his late wife of “drag”, insulting the president and the Advocate General ...
Why such anger?
At 51, Rémi Chesne has been on trial since Monday for the assassination, in 2014, of Patrick Isoird, tied up and then killed with two bullets at the bottom of a cave in Sète.
What he firmly denies, unlike his co-accused, Audrey Louvet, 39, an impressionable woman who would have served as bait and overwhelmed him in his statements.
"As she was small, she barked, she played the rooster"
A sordid crime with the appearance of a contract, the springs of which would be found in the intimate: the former hairdresser at home would have acted out of revenge, five after Patrick Isoird, hospital worker of his state, had a one night relationship with Nadège Chesne, Rémi's wife.
Which, disturbing fact, was found hanged in the family garage the very day after this adultery ...
On this first day of hearing devoted to the personalities of the accused, the president is progressing slowly, first exploring this married life presented by Rémi Chesne as a "happy union", devoid of tension.
A couple formed at the end of adolescence - Nadège was 19 years old, he "20 or 21", who will flourish with the birth of a girl, then the acquisition of a house ... "We had everything we needed. we wanted, we were fine, ”summarizes Rémi Chesne.
Neighbors, however, evoke almost daily arguments, Nadège's howls, and even insults towards her husband.
" Does that remind you of something ?
», Asks the president.
The accused tensed.
"I don't understand why you dirty my wife in public."
Annoyed, Rémi Chesne agrees: “As she was small, she barked, she played the rooster.
But at that time, there were no arguments.
I had just bought him a car, and then we were going to do some work in the kitchen, ”he argues, sensing what will happen next.
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The president indeed comes to the "death by hanging" of Nadège.
Selected words: if the case had at the time been classified as suicide, despite some reservations from the jurists and several oddities, such as these five turns of rope on the hanged man's neck, it has now been reopened .
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The father of Nadège Chesne, who died in 2009: "If we had listened to me ..."
This July 5, 2009, next to the body of Nadège Chesne is indeed found a letter from her hand, in which she apologizes to her husband and describes, in a quasi-clinical manner, her "slippage" of the previous night.
Without a word for his daughter, and without announcing his intention to end it.
"It's a letter that leaves you perplexed, almost a report," notes the president, who has just read it.
“It's his style to be straight…”, replies Rémi Chesne.
"It does not appear to be a suicide note, nor is it a farewell letter," she insists, making her own the doubts of Nadège's family on the involvement of Rémi Chesne.
“I don't know, I've never seen a suicide note!
“, Annoys the person concerned.
"Good," she slices.
Everyone can wonder about the need to write:
there was a short-term penetration without ejaculation
… ”
A very raw formula that will also spontaneously give Rémi Chesne to the police officers who are investigating the suicide.
"These are exactly the same terms as in this letter which you are supposed not to have read yet!"
», Astonished Me Jean-Marc Darrigade, lawyer of relatives of Patrick Isoird, but also of the father of Nadège.
A man who had surprisingly not been warned by his son-in-law of the death of his daughter, to whom he had just made a large donation.
"You are trying to smear my wife!"
“It's a fake ass!
He has always screwed up the shit ", cowardly towards him Rémi Chesne, who maintains:" There was no question of divorce ", and even refuses the idea of adultery.
According to him, his wife was forced under the influence of alcohol.
"You are trying to smear my wife!"
»He gets angry on several occasions, he who does not« understand »that one cheats on his spouse.
"If she had wanted to flirt, she would have gone to this party in a skirt", he balances, then: "If it had been a garbage, a slut who slept with the whole hospital of Sète I would not have it buried in the family vault!
», He ends up going out of its hinges, leaving the room knocked out.
