On Tuesday June 21, 2016, Roseline Lejard, née Painchault, was found guilty of having ordered the murder of her husband, Christophe Lejard, before being sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment by the Aix-en Assize Court. -Provence.
On November 24, 2010, the lifeless body of Christophe Lejard was found by his son, Christopher, as he was about to get into his car to go to work. The latter discovered his father lying in a pool of blood next to his car. He thus returned to alert his mother, Roseline Lejard, née Painchault, who immediately called the emergency services. Manager of a carpentry employing 17 employees, Christophe Lejard had been married to Roseline Lejard for 25 years. Together, the couple had a child. On his side, the victim’s wife was already the mother of two other children from a first marriage.
According to the results of the autopsy performed on the body of Christophe Lejard, the medical examiner concluded that it was a homicide, as the victim was shot in the back of the neck with a 12 gauge shotgun shell. and that he was even on the verge of divorce, given that Christophe Lejard had planned to start a new life with his mistress, Liliane Berger. Subsequently, the investigators highlighted the fact that Roseline Lejard hired a hitman to execute her husband. The man in question was Christopher Munsch, whose DNA was found at the crime scene.
Assassination of Christophe Lejard: his wife tried to kill the man she had hired to assassinate her husband
It is through his first son, Arnaud Privat, who was in conflict with the victim, that Roseline Lejard paid Christopher Munsch to murder her husband. Compared to a “Black Widow“in this case, the wife of Christophe Lejard was found guilty of ordering the murder of her husbandbefore being sentenced to 25 years of criminal imprisonment during her trial before the Assize Court of Aix-en-Provence in 2016. During her stay in prison, Roseline Lejard also paid her former co-detainee Sylvie Colomer to kill Christopher Munsch when he will be out of jail. The latter had meanwhile been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of Christophe Lejard, while Arnaud Privat was sentenced to 15 years in prison for complicity in murder. Nowadays, Roseline Lejard continues to serve her sentence.
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The investigation will determine that the assassination of Christophe Lejard was ordered by his own wife Roseline Lejard born Painchault.
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It will be established that Roseline paid, through her son Arnaud Privat from a first marriage, a henchman, Christopher Munsch, to kill her husband.
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While she was in prison as part of this assassination, Roseline Painchault will pay her fellow prisoner Sylvie Colomer to, upon her release, assassinate Christopher Munsch whom she had hired to kill her husband.
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Roseline Painchault is found guilty of ordering the murder of her husband, defrauding a pension fund and organizing her own insolvency. She was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
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Roseline Lejard initially appealed her decision before finally withdrawing and therefore accepting her sentence.