A murder investigation “extraordinary”. On February 11, 2021, Forty-two-year-old Magali Blandin was declared missing after a noticeable absence from her children’s school. A month later, on March 18, 2021, her husband, Jérôme G, against whom Magali Blandin had filed a complaint for domestic violence a few weeks earlier, admits having killed her after several hours of police custody and interrogation. Immediately, their four children are placed in foster care to ensure their safety. However, two other people were heard in the case of the murder of the young woman: his in-laws. What role did they play?
“The alibi she provided helped to ward off investigators”
The parents of Magali Blandin’s husband, aged seventy-two and seventy-five, are suspected of having been complicit in the murder of their daughter-in-law. They were indicted and imprisoned for “aiding and abetting spousal murder” and “aiding and abetting attempted murder by a spouse”. As revealed The Parisian on April 2, 2021, a hearing would have been held on April 1, during which the guilt of the two septentenaries would have been discussed. According to investigators, Jérome G.’s parents would both have created from scratch an alibi for their son making phone calls at key times. But that’s not all.
To cover her son, Jérôme G.’s mother also reportedly sent emails to his email address. “The alibi she provided kept investigators away from her son for several weeks,” explained Me William Pineau, lawyer for relatives of Magali Blandin. However, no one can yet determine whether Jérôme G acted alone on February 11, 2021 in the morning. A sordid story that the prosecutor of the Republic of Rennes, Philippe Astruc, described as “criminal conspiracy, unusual business, a scenario of great complexity …”
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