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For two weeks, the Montpellier Assize Court ruled an incredible case of murderous real-false home-jacking in the heart of a rich property in the South. Daniel Malgouyres, accused of wanting to scare and rob his wife, was sentenced Friday evening to eighteen years of criminal imprisonment.
Here it appears on the screen, the “Favorite garden of the French 2013” with its palm trees which burst into the sky and its exotic trees, its arbors and its copings, its terraces and its ponds, “A haven of serenity” in which 40,000 annual visitors wander since a France 2 program, hosted by Stéphane Bern, crowned it a televised gem. Located near Servian, the garden of Saint-Adrien is a lesson in plant splendor, mixing excessiveness of sculptures and floral delirium. He appears on the screen but the guide is now a gendarme in a cap posed in front of him who leads the jurors of the “Refreshment bar” at “The summer kitchen”, from the swimming pool to the lawn where the “Indices 3, 4, 5”. The photos continue to scroll: the large Provencal-style building, the living room stairs, the bedroom on the first floor, the four-poster bed, the red puddles on the floor and the “Blood splashes south and south-east”… It is here that on October 5, 2017, David Viers, 43, was killed in a burglary by Daniel Malgouyres, the owner of the premises.
Since November 29, the latter has been tried for “murder” and “Attempted murder” as well as “Complicity in attempted extortion by an organized gang” alongside two co-accused who appear free, Richard Llop and Richard Bruno. The Hérault Assize Court has plunged into an indisputable thriller, it wanders between small and big lies, true and false robbery, it s …