At the bar
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Before the Assize Court of Ain, the relatives of the victim, killed in 2008 in Montreal-la-Cluse, succeeded each other at the bar, this Wednesday, including his two children who were 8 and 19 years old at the time of the facts.
When he was little, Cédric liked to play stamp stamps at the Montreal-la-Cluse post office, with his mother who ran the counter. She gave him “the taste of public service”, says the one who now works in project management. When she was little, Justine came every morning, with her pain au chocolat, to these same premises with gray tiles and yellow walls, before going to school. On December 19, 2008, “as per usual”, she had her breakfast in the back room then she left to catch her bus. At lunchtime, the little girl saw the ambulances pass, she contemplated the collapsed face of her nurse. The rest, she does not remember. At the helm of the Assize Court of Ain, the one who is now 21 years old and works in the offices of a delivery company, barely manages to stammer between tears: “I don’t understand, I don’t understand all this violence for 2000 bullets? Does that mean that a life is worth 2,000 bullets? On December 19, between 8:36 a.m. and 9:05 a.m., his mother was savagely killed with 28 stab wounds. Catherine Burgod had just separated from the father of her two children – aged 8 and 19 at the time – and was pregnant with her new companion.
Today, as adults, the latter o…