Jérôme Gaillard, murderer of Magali Blandin, pleads that he did not endure a separation calling into question his vision of the family. The murder of this educator with a baseball bat is the very definition of femicide.
Jérôme Gaillard murdered Magali Blandin because he could not stand this separation, which called into question his vision “archaic” of the family, in his own words, reported by the Parisian. In February 2021, in Montfort-sur-Meu, near Rennes, died Magali Blandin. Her body was found in March 2021, buried in a nearby wood, after the confession of the murder by Jérôme Gaillard, her ex-husband, with whom she had four children.
Indicted, the man confessed that his criminal project had been fomented for a long time. In September 2020, Magali leaves Jérôme. The man said he lost a psychological landmark, when the witnesses spoke instead of the emancipation of a woman coming out of a toxic relationship. The husband feels his hold on his wife crumble and begins to be eaten away by the anguish of abandonment, according to him. He then sets up an assassination project, first attempting to pay a neighbor to execute Magali Blandin. He finally takes care of it himself in February 2020.
Magali Blandin, killed with a bat
The story of the man, who killed his ex with a baseball bat before burying him in a wood, is chilling. He indeed draws a parallel with the killing of pigs observed during his childhood and the need to knock them out first. To the authorities, he explains: “I am a peasant’s son, when I was little, I saw my grandparents knocking out a pig before slaughtering it so that it wouldn’t suffer. It’s horrible what I’m saying, but it doesn’t there was no way Magali suffered “.
The investigation must also always determine to what extent the parents of Jérôme Gaillard were involved in this killing, they who first provided an alibi for their son. This had allowed “to keep the investigators away from (their) son for several weeks”, explained Me William Pineau, lawyer for relatives of Magali Blandin. For his part, Jérôme Gaillard evokes the fact that he psychologically manipulated his parents in order to obtain money from them, in particular by blackmailing them emotionally into suicide.
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The murder of Magali Blandin is the archetype of a feminicide
Jérôme Gaillard is a man who couldn’t stand his wife emancipating herself, leaving him, standing up to him. This is also his line of defense. His lawyer, Me Jean-Guillaume Le Mintier, explained to Le Figaro that his client told the investigating judge not having succeeded in “to mourn the separation“when taking action. “He found himself in a psychological impasse”, his client evoking a “psychological fog” throughout the period preceding the murder of his wife. “He was a shadow of himself, but today, he sees it more clearly, thanks to a long work of introspection. Even if he still struggles to understand how he was able to commit such a gesture. “.
A line of defense that is part of what was once called a “crime of passion”. The reality here is that a man killed a woman in cold blood, premeditatedly, with a baseball bat, because he couldn’t stand the idea of the family being divided. Magali Blandin had also filed a complaint against Jérôme Gaillard for violence, complaint dismissed. The mechanics of this “typical feminicide” will be discussed in the program “L’Heure du Crime”, on RTL, on October 6, 2021 at 2:30 p.m.
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