He had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1996 for the murder of his children, his wife and his parents in Ain and Jura. Currently imprisoned in the Indre, he will know January 11 if his application for parole is accepted.
He will know in a little less than two months. The decision on a request for conditional release of the false doctor Jean-Claude Romand, sentenced to life for the murder of his family in 1993, will be made on January 11, announced Tuesday, the prosecutor of Chateauroux Stephanie Aouine, the after a hearing at the prison of Saint-Maur (Indre), where the 64 year old man is detained.
An extraordinary case
Jean-Claude Romand managed to lie to his entourage for more than 15 years, posing as a doctor of the World Health Organization (WHO), before murdering five members of his family. He was sentenced to life in 1996. An extraordinary case that inspired cinema and literature. Having served his 22-year security sentence, Jean-Claude Romand has been theoretically released since 2015.
The prospect of his release is viewed with a very bad eye by his brother-in-law, Emmanuel Crolet. "We do not want him to come out ," he recently told Ouest-France .