Jacqueline Veyrac at the Nice courthouse on January 8, 2021 with her son and his lawyer -

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  • After three weeks of trial, the Advocate General will take her requisitions at the trial of the alleged kidnappers of Jacqueline Veyrac.

  • The person responsible for this kidnapping, which had led to the sequestration for forty-eight hours of the businesswoman, faces life imprisonment.

For the facts with which he is accused, he incurs life imprisonment.

The Advocate General, who will take his requisitions this Friday before the Assize Court, will she demand the maximum penalty against Giuseppe Serena?

For three weeks, in any case, testimonies have converged against this ruined former restaurateur, accused of having organized, in October 2016, the resounding of Jacqueline Veyrac.

He would have been, according to one of his former companions, "affected by his self-esteem" after having had the feeling of being "fired" from a Nice establishment belonging to the wealthy hotelier.

The court believed a confession

Enough to foment this plan and to have, also in 2013, organized a first abortive kidnapping attempt?

The 67-year-old man, the build still imposing despite health problems, continued to deny at the hearing.

Amputated of a lung after cancer, suffering from diabetes and equipped with a pacemaker, the sixty-year-old native of Salassa (near Turin) had surprised the court by presenting his "apologies" to "aunt Jacqueline" who had just filed , January 8, before the jurors.

Confessions ?

"I do not admit my guilt", he had immediately rectified, blaming Enrico Fontanella, another accused whose case was disjointed for health reasons.

After the testimonies of the twelve other men being tried at the moment by the Assize Court, it is indeed Giuseppe Serena who appears to be the "brain" of the operation.

Sponsors and henchmen

With under his orders, a whole array (presumed) of sponsors and henchmen enlisted in the Nice district of Moulins ... by a recruiter who appeared at the trial in a wheelchair after a recent bullet wound!

“He manipulated us all,” Philip Dutton said.

This former British soldier turned homeless is the only one who has truly acknowledged his involvement in the kidnapping and the 2013 attempt.

From the box, he also cleared another accused.

The former paparazzi Luc Goursolas, converted into a private investigator, did not know that he had been responsible for equipping Jacqueline Veyras' vehicle with GPS beacons for kidnapping.

He believed he was acting in an adultery case.

All will be fixed with the verdict, which is expected to be delivered on Wednesday.

Justice

The accused, a "fired" restaurateur, was "affected by his self-esteem", tells a witness at the trial of the kidnapping of Jacqueline Veyrac

Justice

One of the main defendants, ex-British soldier, claims to have been "manipulated"

  • Abduction

  • Assize Court

  • Trial

  • Removal

  • Justice

  • Nice