In 2020, Louis Mea was accused of the assassination of his parents-in-law, the Lefebvre spouses. His diabolical crime was “almost perfect”. Flashback.
It was a macabre discovery that shook the peaceful town of Sauron (Charente-Maritime) on the night of February 28, 2015. Marie-Hélène Jaud and Thierry Lefebvre, a couple in their fifties without history, were found dead at their home partially burnt down. The traces of strangulation and other marks on the bodies of the victims testify to a “unprecedented violence“, according to our colleagues from Parisian. For Louis Mea, “a real massacre“. The son-in-law of the Lefebvre couple quickly attracts the attention of the investigators: it is the last to see his in-laws alive. Traces of his DNA were notably found on a bloody shirt. The Assize Court of Charente-Maritime condemned him to a 30-year prison sentence.
A few hours earlier, the Parisian in his forties was on the road in the direction of Sauron to pay a visit “Unexpectedly“to the couple who were then going through a difficult time.”When I arrived at my in-laws, Marie-Hélène Jaud told me that she was fed up, that things were not going well with her husband“, will tell Louis Mea whose visit is spread out between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. The Lefebvre son-in-law remembers the visit of two “Romanians” interested in the motorhome that the couple would have put up for sale. Key witnesses whose existence has never been proven. Investigators find, however, a hypothetical motive for crime : THE refund a loan of 30,000 euros granted by his parents-in-law to allow him to set up a business in Côte d’Ivoire.
Why the crime of the Lefebvre spouses was almost perfect
“ILouis Mea’s DNA was not found on the victims’ clothes and bodiesargue lawyers Me Lionel Béthune de Moro and Me Aurélien Bourdier during the trial five years later. You don’t kill your in-laws who consider you a son for that amount” For Advocate General Soraya Arhas, the evidence is “overwhelming“. In tears, Louis Mea will never deviate from his version of the facts : he is quite simply innocent. Without any confession on his part, the crime will be characterized as “diabolical” and of “almost Perfect“ by Soraya Arhas. “Confession is a form of respect for the victims, for society and for oneself“. The accused will launch his ex-companion Angéline Lefebvre: “I deeply sympathize. Losing both parents, I wouldn’t wish that on anyonee”.