It’s a chilling incident. On February 11, 2021, in Montfort-sur-Meu (Ille-et-Vilaine), the disappearance of Magali Blandin, aged 42, was reported. A worrying disappearance because the specialized educator and mother of four children is not used to vanishing into the wild without leaving a trace. Her body will be found several weeks later, on March 20, 2021. Her husband, Jérôme, is placed in police custody and suspected of “organized gang murder”. Indeed, the body of Magali Blandin was found after her husband confessed to the murder. He will explain that he killed his wife with a baseball bat. That’s when a real family business will be dismantled. Investigators will realize that his parents were also aware of their son’s macabre project as reported The Parisian in May 2021: “On February 11, between 9:41 a.m. and 10:22 a.m., the septuagenarian fabricated his son’s alibi and called his home three times from Jérôme’s telephones. His wife Monique came to pick him up a few minutes later. During the murder , he asks his father to use his computer and his phone to create an alibi for him, while his mother had to lie and tell the investigators thatshe had to pick up her son from her home around 11:30 a.m. to take him to lunch.”
Three accomplices facing justice
Incarcerated in March 2021, Jean and Monique were released a few months later, in November of the same year. Indicted for “complicity in spousal murder” And “complicity in attempted murder by spouse” they will never be judged. And for good reason, like their son who hanged himself in prison, the parents committed suicide on Tuesday February 7, 2023. According to information from West France, their bodies were found in their home in Turballe in Loire-Atlantique. But despite the suicide of the three protagonists, a trial will indeed take place as reported by our colleagues from the Parisian Monday, August 7, 2023.
And for good reason, Jérôme Gaillard revealed to investigators that he had already tried to kill his wife in November 2020. To do this, he called on three Georgians and paid them 20,000 euros to get rid of Magali Blandin . They are these three people, Gio Z., Severiani T. and Zaza P. who will be heard as required by the Rennes prosecutor’s office. So real hitmen or simple crooks who wanted to scam Jérôme Gaillard? This is the question to which the judges will try to answer although the Rennes prosecutor’s office already has its idea on the question. Indeed, it is established that Gio did not “never intended to hire anyone to put an end to Magali Blandin’s life, he offered his services for the sole purpose of deceiving Jérôme Gaillard and encouraging him to hand over money.” Despite everything, it will be heard for “willful abstention from preventing a crime”. Magali’s parents expect nothing from this trial, as explained by Me William Pineau, the lawyer for Magali Blandin’s relatives: “For Magali’s parents, the court case ended with the death of those responsible for the murder of their daughter, Jérôme Gaillard and his parents. They have no expectations of this trial.”