A man, accused of having himself organized the robbery during which he shot a robber in October 2017 in Servian (Herault), was released under judicial supervision on Tuesday.
Suspected of having organized the burglary of his home, during which he had shot a criminal in October 2017 in Servian (Herault), Daniel Malgouyres was released under judicial supervision on Tuesday after a year of detention.
"They have no proof against me. We will take me to the meeting because it is true that I had this gesture (shoot a burglar, Ed), but it was to save my life, " said Daniel Malgouyres, who should not stay in the Hérault, according to the terms of his judicial control, on his release from prison: "If there is only one proof against me, I sell my estate and donate it to the Cancer League" .
"The fight of his innocence is not over"
"The fight of his innocence is not over," added his lawyer Jean-Marc Darrigade: "We will be able to fight with more serenity, the desire to go all the way and to be right until at the end. I do not honestly know what decided the judges to release him today rather than a month ago . "
On October 5, 2017, Daniel Malgouyres, owner of Jardins de Saint-Adrien, a 4-hectare estate in Servian, shot dead one of the two men who had come to rob the estate and who had beaten them, his wife Françoise and him. Pleading "self-defense" , Daniel Malgouyres was first indicted for "murder" and left free under judicial supervision. But the second thief, arrested in Perpignan and indicted in mid-October 2017, accused him of organizing the robbery.
Daniel Malgouyres was then indicted and imprisoned on October 20 for complicity in attempted robbery. But mid-December 2017, the investigating chamber of the Court of Appeal of Montpellier had emphasized that in French law there could be no theft between spouses, while keeping him in detention. The investigation with multiple twists takes place against the backdrop of the couple's tumultuous separation, which has been torn apart for months.