Willy Bardon, sentenced to 30 years of criminal imprisonment by the Court of Assizes of the Somme for the kidnapping and the sequestration followed by death and the rape of Elodie Kulik in 2002, is in intensive care in the hospital. He swallowed a "product" just after the verdict, a gesture that one of his lawyers, Gabriel Dumesnil, considers as that of a desperate.
"It's terrible, terrible what happens to this man.It is a condemnation that he can not accept, we do not accept either," says on Europe 1 the council, which says understand that his client got there. "I do not know if it's an act that's predictable ... It's a person who knows himself innocent, who can not accept to spend the rest of his life in a prison while she has nothing So, yes, we can understand that we come to extreme things like that. "
The defense would like to re-try the case
"It is considered that the defense has not been listened to, and that obviously it would be necessary to retry this case," said Gabriel Dumesnil. "It is a decision that is difficult to understand from the file".
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In 2002, Elodie Kulik, a 24-year-old bank clerk, was abducted, raped, strangled and burned in Tertry, Aisne. Before dying, the young woman had called for help. On the 26-second recording, the voices of two men, and "the only relative" who is "recognized on the tape" by several witnesses is Willy Bardon, according to general counsel Anne-Laure Sandretto. In the eyes of the prosecution, the participation of a man, Grégory Wiart, who died in 2003, is "undeniable" . Willy Bardon on his side has always claimed his innocence.