Tuesday September 12, 2023, the hearing of Thierry Cahuzac took place before the investigating chamber of Montpellier, in the department of Hérault. The 52-year-old man is accused of violently murdering his parents and in-laws in August 2020, in Perpignan, in the Pyrénées-Orientales. His judgment will begin Monday December 4, 2023, specified The Parisian Wednesday September 13. Only… Incarcerated for more than three years, his pre-trial detention exceeded the maximum legal period, he should therefore be released. Which Thierry Cahuzac categorically refused. Before the investigating chamber, he claimed responsibility for the four assassinations by developing the reasons for his action: his parents and in-laws were the reason for his personal shipwreck, his ruined marriage, his failed life and a disappointing professional trajectory. His lawyer, Maître Anaïs Lebeaux, supported the Attorney General’s request for an exceptional extension of detention temporary of his client.
A nightmarish day
Saturday August 22, 2020, after a very hot day, Thierry Cahuzac attacked his parents with a knife in the house where he spent his childhood. 16 deep wounds were found on his mother’s body. While his parents were dying in a bloodbath, the fifty-year-old smoked a cigarette before returning home, a small house still being completed, built with the help of his father. The next day, Sunday August 23, 2020, at milkman time, he went to his retired in-laws. The assailant seriously injured them with a rifle then attacked again with a knife: 15 wounds for his father-in-law, 26 wounds for Michèle, his mother-in-law. “Women are more resilient”deduced Thierry Cahuzac from his macabre experiences. While the president reconstructs the facts, he is in the box, relaxed. He smiles, jokes with his lawyer. His ex-wife, Dominique, began divorce proceedings in 2011. “The target, in fact, was me. And through my parents, it was me he was targeting”she announced in front of the investigating chamber. “I was very scared. I warned about its dangerousness, but that was not enough“, she regretted. The audience rather reassured her. “I do not see how a magistrate could today take responsibility for removing this person from the prison environment where he is”, Dominique reassured herself. The investigating chamber will render its decision on Tuesday September 19, 2023.