Colonel Sébastien Jaudon addresses the population before a search operation in the town of Montfort-sur-Meu near Rennes, where Magali Blandin has disappeared.

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Mathieu Pattier / SIPA

We had heard a lot from the defense in recent days.

Tuesday, lawyer William Pineau carried the voice of the family of Magali Blandin, found dead Saturday morning less than two kilometers from the home of her husband Jérôme Gaillard.

The latter, from whom she had been separated since September, admitted having killed her with a baseball bat on February 11 in front of her apartment in Montfort-sur-Meu, near Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine).

The lawyer spoke of the husband's “hold” over the couple and their four children.

"He coldly, at length and meticulously organized the execution of his wife."

But even "by imagining the worst of the disturbing potential of Jérôme Gaillard, nobody could have imagined that he could go that far," relativized Me Pineau, who defends the parents and the sister of the forty-something.

This statement comes as a response to the criticisms heard around poor protection of the victim, who had filed a complaint for domestic violence.

"Magali Blandin was a victim in many ways and in many aspects", but it would be "too simple to reduce the subject to that", he qualified.

"My clients do not complain about this decision," said the council in relation to this complaint closed without follow-up.

The lawyer considered that this murder did not result "from a fatal chain of usual violence" but rather "from a thoughtful personal individual resolution" on the part of the husband.

"If ever I had to return to the family home, come and get me".

According to the lawyer, the family had "recently" had the confidence of what the atmosphere within the couple had "terribly tense since Magali Blandin had expressed wishes for independence."

The latter had mentioned "diffuse concerns" about the aggressiveness that her husband could show.

"If ever I had to return to the family home, come and get me", she would have told her family.

Indicted for murder by spouse, Jérôme Gaillard explained to his lawyer "that he had not put up with Magali leaving him".

He had first paid 20,000 euros to Georgians, also indicted for attempted murder in an organized gang, before killing himself the mother of his four children, aged 4 to 14 years.

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