Indicted since March for the murder of his wife, Magali Blandin, Jérôme Gaillard committed suicide in prison.
At 4:05 am this November 1, Jérôme Gaillard, main suspect in the murder of his wife, Magali Blandin, committed suicide in his cell, reports The Parisian. He would have hanged himself. 45 years old, he had been imprisoned since March for the assassination of his wife from whom he was separated. A father of four, he had been fighting for several weeks and had gone on a late-night strike for social services to reunite his children and allow them to see him when they wanted.
Followed up in detention by the regional medico-psychological services, the suspect expressed “dark thoughts” since the start of his imprisonment, according to a source familiar with the matter, informs Le Parisien. The last time Jérôme Gaillard’s lawyer, Me Jean-Guillaume Le Mintier, saw his client, “He was crying in front of this field of ruins that he left behind and that he wanted to try to repair, in vain…” The lawyer expressed regret this new mourning for the children of Magali Blandin and Jérôme Gaillard, aged 4 to 15 years, now orphans.
He takes “his last secrets” to his grave
The body of Magali Blandin, a 42-year-old mother who disappeared on February 11, was finally found after indications from her husband. Recently left, the man was accused by his ex-wife of domestic violence. During his arrest, Jérôme Gaillard had confessed to having killed his wife with a baseball bat. He then told investigators where the body was buried.
In the rest of the case, other people were arrested. Indicted, the parents of the man admitted on October 12 to have been aware of their son’s plan to murder his wife. They had given him money to hire contract killers and then provided him with an alibi for the murder. They have since been placed in pre-trial detention. When the father of the family had imagined his criminal plan, he would have called on Georgian acquaintances to carry out his murder project. Upon the announcement of the death of Jérôme Gaillard, Antoine Ory, lawyer of Gio, one of the Georgians indicted in this case, declared that he carried “In his grave his last secrets”, report The Parisian. “This new tragedy deprives the family and the others under investigation of a real trial.”
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