Until the end, Rémy Chesne will have proclaimed his innocence.
Despite the accusations of lying by his co-accused.
This former hairdresser was sentenced this Friday by the Montpellier Assize Court to a 30-year prison sentence for the kidnapping, sequestration and murder of Patrick Isoird, whose body was discovered in July 2014. The prosecution General had requested against him the maximum penalty, life imprisonment.
Audrey Louvet, his co-defendant, saw a 12-year prison sentence pronounced against him.
The latter was therefore condemned for having served as bait in this so-called “bloody cave” affair.
But she was not found guilty of murder.
A "Machiavellian", "diabolical" scenario
"The secret of the Sète cave is the revenge of an injured man" who "savagely executed" a "good man", explained the attorney general.
According to him, for five years, Rémi Chesne will "mount this Machiavellian scenario" and "diabolical", a "crime of self-love" against Patrick Isoird.
The latter had been the lover of the wife of Rémi Chesne, found hanged at the family home the day after this adultery, July 5, 2009. Patrick Isoird then said that she was preparing to divorce.
Reported missing on June 23, 2014, near the Listel cave in Sète, Patrick Isoird was found on July 17 in a cavity of this underground gallery of Mont Saint-Clair: feet and fists bound, the cranial box exploded by a rifle bullet hunting shot less than 50 cm by a person overlooking it, the body charred after a combustion of "several hours", according to the coroner.