This is the first time that he has been heard on the merits since his indictment last March.
Since 2 p.m. this Thursday, Jérôme Gaillard has been in the Rennes office of examining magistrate David Benichou to speak about his involvement in the murder of his wife, Magali Blandin, found buried in a wood near Rennes (Ille-et -Ugly).
On the morning of February 11, in Montfort-sur-Meu, this forty-year-old father of four struck two baseball bats on Magali, who had left him a few months earlier.
Jérôme Gaillard will then deposit the body of his companion for more than twenty years at the bottom of a hole, before covering it with lime and then earth.
After confessing, the 40-year-old was indicted for "murder by spouse" last March.
“He tirelessly repeats that he does not understand how he was able to find himself in such a psychological impasse and resort to such a paroxysmal act.
He repeats that he was convinced at the material time that this act, which he describes as odious and unforgivable, was the only way to put an end to his agony and his psychological distress, ”comments Me Jean -Guillaume Le Mintier, his lawyer.
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In his murderous madness, Jérôme Gaillard leads his own parents, Monique and Jean, who learn about their son's criminal project from Christmas 2020. But the two septuagenarians do not try to reason with him, reveal the investigations.
Worse, they would have given him 50,000 euros to carry out his dark designs.
Did they know then what the money was going to be used for?
Did Jean Gaillard lend a hand to his son to bury the body?
The investigation has already determined that Jean Gaillard had helped craft an alibi for his son on the morning of the murder.
And what was Monique Gaillard's schedule really this morning of February 11?
Monique Gaillard must be heard this Friday
In any case, estimates a judgment of the chamber of the instruction, the attitude of the couple "could only reinforce the homicidal will of Jérôme Gaillard who knew that he could have the support of his parents". The two were indicted for "complicity in murder" and imprisoned. Monique Gaillard must be heard by the examining magistrate this Friday at 2 p.m.
For his part, Jérôme Gaillard tries at all costs to clear them. "He still lives as painfully the penal and prison situation of his parents and the placement of his four children, for which he considers himself solely responsible," confirms his lawyer. Still according to Me Le Mintier, "he considers that he is the only one to have to pay for his crime and is determined to provide all the explanations to allow the justice to acquire the conviction that his parents were unaware that he would commit the act. Thursday February 11 ”.
