Gérard Pardiès case: return on the bloody New Year of this former police officer victim of family resentment

New Years Eve ended in a bloodbath. In 2016, Gérard Pardiès disappeared just before the stroke of midnight. As reported France Blue At the time, this retired former police officer left his sister’s home to join his, by bike, around 9 p.m. on December 31. In La Garde, in the Var, it was a resident of the residence where this 77-year-old man lived who alerted the police, after discovering a huge bloodstain on the ground in front of the garage of the ex-police officer. An investigation was then opened for worrying disappearance by the Toulon prosecutor’s office. Five days later, in police custody confused by his own blood, his son had confessed to his murder.

According to France Blue, the cause of this tragic murder would be old quarrels which then dated back more than ten years. Gérard Pardiès’ son reportedly tried to reconnect with his father, who had left the region after the death of his wifee. On December 24, 2016, he went to the former policeman, who did not give him a warm welcome. A week later, “So decided to wait for his father, according to our colleagues. He beat him and threw his body in the car”. Corn Frédéric Pardiès never revealed where he hid his father’s body, a former policeman with a troubled past, convicted of a robbery decades earlier. It seems that he made it disappear by throwing it into the Mediterranean Sea.

Gérard Pardiès’ son was sentenced

“My father, his instructions, I never understood. However, the family should be something simple. I regret having killed my father, he said in front of the jury, according to Var-Morning. Whatever the trouble, I won’t appeal. “ The Advocate General assured that “it is hatred that led to the crime” : “I maintain that the intention of murder guided the actions of Frédéric Pardiès. The intention, even fleeting, to take the life. It is a beating where he does not hold back. He wants to turn against his father all the time. all of a sudden. So that the debt is paid “. On January 10, 2020, he was sentenced by the Var Assize Court. Frédéric Pardiès received a sentence of twelve years of criminal imprisonment.

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