It is an emotion that we expected to come from elsewhere, but which, in the space of a few minutes, will have made it possible to place the accused in his humanity, and perhaps also, in a form of rationality.
On the second day of the trial for the double murder of Valentin Marcone before the Gard assizes, his little sister testified to her deep dismay at this senseless gesture: the execution, on May 11, 2021, of Luc Teissonnière, 54, and Martial Guérin, 32 years old, at the Plantiers sawmill, a small Cévennes village.
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A frail twig with long brown hair, Elsa Marcone delivers with gentleness and delicacy her own reading of the accused, this “protective big brother”, “calm and kind” who, until this tragic tipping point, had always known how to in the face of adversity.
Her words, which she sometimes holds back at the same time as her sobs, evoke "a very peaceful childhood" in this house in the heart of the Gard countryside, a loving family which, however, will be shattered with the stormy divorce. parents.
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