Lhe fire that broke out on April 15, 2021 in Habas, in the Landes, quickly seemed suspicious. The firefighters rescued four victims poisoned by the fumes, a grandmother, her two grandchildren and her companion. On April 19, the first was indicted for attempted murder, suspected of having wanted to attempt the life of his relatives.
New elements delivered this Tuesday, January 18, during a hearing where the sexagenarian asks to be released…
Lhe fire that broke out on April 15, 2021 in Habas, in the Landes, quickly seemed suspicious. The firefighters rescued four victims poisoned by the fumes, a grandmother, her two grandchildren and her companion. On April 19, the first was indicted for attempted murder, suspected of having wanted to attempt the life of his relatives.
New elements delivered this Tuesday, January 18, during a hearing where the sexagenarian asks to be released, throw even more trouble. A scenario, which seems well premeditated, is taking shape over the details revealed by the investigating chamber of the Pau Court of Appeal.
Three outbreaks of fire have thus been identified, with fuel spreading and soaked cover. A can of gasoline is also found on the bed of the parental room. A lighter lies on a chair at the entrance to the room where the two grandchildren, 11 and 10, were sleeping. The companion, disabled, was discovered unconscious in the kitchen. Some habits of the couple, together for nine years, seem to have changed that evening, such as the accesses, locked in an unusual way.
more electricity
And then, above all, there is this cut off electricity meter. To prevent the fire alarm from going off, imagine the prosecution and the civil parties. But the device was equipped with an autonomous battery. What the suspect “did not know”.
The investigation showed that the grandchildren and the companion had traces of benzodiazepine in their bodies. During the procedure, the indictment claimed to have been prescribed it the previous week for shoulder pain.
“Who can imagine for a moment that she wanted to kill her grandchildren? It’s inconceivable”
Still, this substance in particular raises questions. Especially since it is found in another case for which the Landaise is also indicted. In 2009, her husband had filed a complaint for acts of aggression and poisoning that he would have suffered since 2007 in Béarn. “We are not dealing with someone who is at his first attempt”, thus estimates Mand Grégoire Barreau, one of the lawyers for the civil parties.
At the time, the file had been closed without further action, for lack of being able to impute the facts to the wife. His lawyer, Mr.and Thierry Sagardoytho, filed a motion for nullity on Tuesday.
Poor health
The sexagenarian attended the debate by videoconference from the Pau remand center. In the wide-angle of the camera, she appears small and frail. She did not speak, reacting only when her ex-husband is mentioned and denying having “watched in a loop” documents on the “black widow of Isère”.
At the time of the facts, she was considering leaving her companion, she said in the proceedings. Of the evening, she remembers nothing. “Who can imagine for a moment that she wanted to kill her grandchildren? It is inconceivable “, struck for her Mand Sagardoytho.
Answer on January 24
The council supports a request for release, at the home of one of his daughters because of the state of health of his client. The grandmother, who sought to end her life in detention, went back and forth between the Pyrenees hospital center for psychiatric care, the Cadillac center (Gironde) and the prison. The court will deliver its decision on whether or not to keep in detention on Monday, January 24.
Mand Sagardoytho was also indignant at not having, after nine months of detention, the reports of psychological and psychiatric experts. These will be essential for the lawyer who asks himself “the question of imputability”. And perhaps, implicitly, that of criminal responsibility or the alteration of discernment.