Maurice Agnelet: appeal dismissed, end of the case? – Release

End point of the case? Not so sure. The Supreme Court rejected the appeal on Wednesday Maurice Agnelet. So here it is definitely guilty of the murder of Agnes Le Roux in 1977, sentenced to twenty years imprisonment by the Assize Court of Rennes in April 2014. Despite the suspicions, Agnelet has always said innocent, and can again enter the European Court of Human Rights. What would make this last case, which since 1977-38 years! – Gives much attention to justice

On this point, his lawyer, M ^th François St-Pierre says he will decide in “in. coming days after a calm analysis and professional motives of the Supreme Court “. “This is the motivation of Maurice Agnelet [to proceed], he says. But you also hear his children, including his son Thomas who has always supported. The continuation of the court case creates anxiety among her children, too, it is I who adds, among the members of the family Le Roux. “

In the Now, M ^th Saint-Pierre says his “goal number 1″ is to “get parole Maurice Agnelet, given its age, his condition and years of imprisonment he has already done. “ He is currently held in Rennes.

A judicial vortex

Meanwhile possible suites summarize the facts – which we do not know much. Agnes Le Roux, 29, disappears to November 1977 without a trace: was never found neither his body nor his car. It is unclear to what she would have died, when, how. Since then, her former lover and chief suspect, Maurice Agnelet, now aged 77, is the center of a judicial vortex alternately innocent and guilty of his murder.

In this unique case, the former lawyer liar and manipulator was accused of murder (1983) and obtained a dismissal (1985), was again indicted (2004) , referred to the foundation (2005), acknowledged in Nice (2006), sentenced on appeal to twenty years in Aix-en-Provence (2007). In 2013, his trial was deemed unfair by the European Court, because the stop was not motivated, as was then the rule. The Criminal Sentences Review Board did retrial in Rennes, where the hearing was marked by a reversal of his son, William, who, after sustaining the innocence of his father, said the latter had told him to be guilty, what his mother would have confirmed. But it has not brought more evidence: in ten years, it has no conclusive evidence again and

Summoned to prove his innocence

The outcome of the. procedure satisfactory to the Le Roux family, tired of repeating for almost four decades qu’Agnelet is the culprit. But it remains unsatisfied. In this case, what elements have the charge? It is based on his suspicious attitude, unfriendly personality, his sleazy behavior, contradictory explanations or smokers. At each trial, he was ordered to prove his innocence, that he is unable, digging into his lies. But by law, it is for the prosecution to prove guilt, and the task is impossible.

Why? Because the investigation was botched from the start. The disappearance was reported by the family with four months late, having claimed Agnelet Agnes was part “make java” Los Angeles – pure invention of a man trying, according to the prosecution to delay the search. The statement has accumulated negligence, errors and mistakes. The venerable Freemason Agnelet benefited from various protections and then he was caught without the institution is there for much, the survey being conducted by the stubborn mother Agnes Renee, former owner of Nice casino .? Palace of the Mediterranean whose daughter he had lost control

When Agnes she disappeared

The survey suffers from a lack original: one not known when the rich but sad Agnes Le Roux has vanished with his Range Rover, between October 26 and November 2, 1977, during which time it is unknown what did Agnelet. When research has finally started, was found in the apartment Nice young woman a word suggesting a voluntary disappearance: “Sorry, I skid. Here ends my way. All is well. Agnes. I desire that Maurice does all “ Police seize a copy of the word ten months later at the office of the attorney Agnelet, compulsive archivist, and suspicion is heavy. He has stage a disappearance

Mystery: the judge does not seek to know … When in custody, Agnelet has the right to think before answering. To the question “Have you an account in Switzerland,” he reflects fifty-five minutes before letting go: “I refuse to answer.” Then so has … “I know I will go to the foundation, but I’ll write a book and make me gold balls,” he shouted a policeman in 1979.

“I wish it had my ass after my money”

For the survey, Renée Le Roux, former CEO of the Palais de la Méditerranée, has therefore substituted for the failing justice. Agnelet was first his lawyer at the casino, then handled the divorce of her daughter in 1976, while the seductive. “Literally intoxicated” as a friend, Agnes, amounted to Monaco with British or Swiss nurses, passionately loved Agnelet, ten years her senior. He did not care. He has an affair with another woman, Zoune, describing it as a “winder” continues to live with his wife, although divorced, and multiplies with men, while denying the . “What I know is that he does not need me to believe you, wrote her Agnes. You miser love. “

He called ” the good wife, the trollop, “ she paid him because “It is broke,” then she regretted: “I wish it had my ass after my money.” In early October 1977, she attempts by twice to commit suicide, the calls for help: “Where are you? I am far from everything “ At the hospital, she wrote:. ” With you until death, and perhaps even after “ Three weeks later, she disappears.

The money, the mobile?

His family did not notice right away because she broke the bridge since the summer of 1977 that Agnes lost her mother control of the casino. Convinced Agnelet Agnes sold his shares to Jean-Dominique Fratoni, owner of the neighboring Ruhl, who gave her in exchange for 3,000,000 francs. Lamb will be sentenced in 1990 to thirty months in prison, twenty-four of farm for sale of shares of complicity and embezzlement. The prosecution sees this as a mobile. Having recovered the money, would Agnelet rid of Agnes, which he did not need

But for defense, he had not to killing because she agreed that they have all the money. And the prosecution told where or how, or when he would have killed. It lacks a corpse – Agnes was never found – and the circumstances of the crime. The contradictions of Agnelet do not establish his guilt. But why it seemed so certain that Agnes would never return? To his accusers, he knows something, and if he does not say is that it hides his guilt.