Jacques Rançon was sentenced on appeal to life imprisonment on Friday June 24 for the murder of Isabelle Mesnage. The former companion of the serial killer had already recounted the ordeal she experienced by his side.
The one called “the Perpignan train station killer“has once again faced justice. Jacques Rancon62, was sentenced on Friday June 24 to the life imprisonment by the Aisne Assize Court of Appeal for the murder and rape of Isabelle Mesnagecommitted in 1986, reports The Independent. A sentence accompanied by a 18 year security period. Before that, the serial killer had been sentenced to 30 years in prison at first instance, by the assizes of the Somme. As the regional daily notes, Jacques Ranson has already been sentenced to life imprisonment in 2018 for murders of Mokhtaria Chaïb and Marie-Héléne Gonzalez in 1997 and 1998 in Perpignan.
During this first trial, the ex-companion of Jacques Rançon, lolitahad come to the stand to testify, as reported Pure people. In a previous interview with BFMTV, the young woman, who was 15 and a half when she met the criminal, who was 44 years old at the time, said hell that she lived by his side.
“He raised his hand to me several times”
After meeting in 2004 and two children born in 2006 and 2009, their relationship deteriorated over the following years, and Jacques Rançon became more and more violent with Lolita. This last leaves in 2012. The one who was a storekeeper at the time then began to harass her and threaten her with death. Lolita, terrified, files a complaint against him. Jacques Rançon, condemned, will have his DNA recorded in the national automated file of genetic fingerprints.
Facing the cameras of BFMTV, Lolita, now 33, told her Calvary. “He raised his hand to me several times. The first time is when I was pregnant with my daughter“, she described. Then come blows “a little more regular”. “The slightest annoyance on his part, I toasted. And when I separated, he committed an irreparable act as they say. He wanted to plant me, chasing me down the street with a knife“added Lolita, who admitted to having discovered the judicial past of Jacques Rançon after filing a complaint against him. “He was always looking for a cause for argument to leave. He left at night, he came back a few hours later, even sometimes at the beginning of the morning”she also recalled, saying that he justified his absences by his need to “air your head”. “He told me that he was doing the station side tour, the post office, in Perpignan (…). It completely coincides with the facts that took place a few years ago.”