“Owhere, when, how. These are the three words that have punctuated almost forty years of an unprecedented judicial soap opera. Five investigating judges. A dismissal pronounced in 1985 and confirmed in 1986. The reopening, fourteen years later, of a judicial investigation for sequestration of a corpse, which became, at the end of a new investigation, that of intentional homicide then assassination. And finally, the dismissal, twenty-nine years after the facts, of the accused before a first assize court. The Maurice Agnelet affair, named after the former lawyer and lover of Agnès Le Roux, a rich heiress from Nice, is all that at once. And so much more.
In June 1977, Agnès Le Roux was 29 years old. She is the daughter of the former Chairman and CEO of the Palais de la Méditerranée, the Nice casino of which she…