Illustration of the penal code, here in the Assize Court of Ille-et-Vilaine, in Rennes. - C. Allain / 20 Minutes

A 64-year-old man is on trial this week before the Assize Court of Morbihan for having killed his neighbor in Brec'h, a small town near Auray, in June 2017. Aged 55, the victim lived in the house childhood of his murderer. When she opened the door, she was shot at close range and died instantly. Her husband, who was in the garden, managed to escape. The accused then turned the rifle against him before firing, seriously injuring his jaw.

Tried since Tuesday before the assize court, the man has trouble explaining his gesture. According to Le Télégramme , who attended the trial, the man would have explained "wanting to be alone to kill himself". He wanted to end his days in his childhood home, where the victim and her husband lived. A couple with whom he had a stormy relationship since an altercation in the neighborhood over a hedge, specifies the daily.

"He had a grimace of hatred"

On anxiolytics and with two grams of alcohol in the blood, the man has few memories of the scene. The deceased's husband remembers this better. “I firmly believe that he wanted to kill as many people as possible in my family. We were strangers who had to be eradicated. He had a grimace of hatred when he saw me, "he said at the helm, reports Le Télégramme . The trial continues until Friday before the Assize Court.

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