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  • Michel Lambin, also nicknamed "the middle shepherd", could appear again at the assizes for two other premeditated murders.

  • The investigative chamber of the court of appeal decided to send this man back for the murder of two men, Farid Errachdi and Jean-Félix Leca, whom he had lodged in his farm.

"Le berger de Caussols" involved in other affairs?

Already sentenced to 18 years in prison for a first murder in the Alpes-Maritimes and currently retried on appeal for a second, Michel Lambin could also appear in court for two other premeditated murders.

The investigative chamber of the Aix-en-Provence Court of Appeal in fact decided on April 6 to dismiss this man for the murder of two men, Farid Errachdi and Jean-Félix Leca, whom he had lodged. in his Bayou farm.

The decision is not final, however, because Michel Lambin's lawyer, Me Bernard Ginez, appealed to the Supreme Court.

His ex blames him for a dozen murders

The investigative chamber which controls the work of the judges had been seized by the lawyer of members of the families of the victims, Me Jean-Pascal Padovani, after a dismissal rendered by an investigating judge of Nice on June 16, 2017 "It is for families a comfort and a feeling of justice even if they know that nothing has been acquired yet," he said.

Aged 70, diminished by paralyzing sciatica which forces him to appear lying down, Michel Lambin, a former robber turned goatherd, is currently being retried on appeal in Aix-en-Provence for the murder in 2002 of a guardian of school.

At first instance, he was sentenced to life imprisonment with 22 years of security.

During this trial, his ex-companion Nicole Rossi, had implicated him for a dozen murders carried out, according to her, out of love rivalry, revenge or for gambling debts of the men around her.

She had notably accused him of having boiled the head of one of his victims in a pressure cooker or of having, on another occasion, tasted human flesh seasoned "with garlic and parsley. ".

Body skinned and fed to pigs

Still according to his testimony, Lambin would have welcomed in the spring of 2001 in his sheepfold three escaped individuals including Jean-Félix Leca, known as “Le Corse”, accompanied by a young Maghrebian, Farid Errachdi who served as their driver.

Blaming Farid for the hijacking of a bracelet from a robbery, he allegedly killed him with a handgun before butchering his body and feeding it to the pigs, according to his ex-companion.

A few days later, he would also have "killed Corsica" whom he accused of scheming against him.

After cutting his body, he would have burned it, still according to Nicole Rossi.

Michel Lambin was definitively sentenced in 2011 to 18 years imprisonment for the assassination of a convicted offender, Jean-Yves Guerrée.

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The disturbing "double personality" of the "shepherd of Caussols", suspected hitman

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Suspected of a dozen other murders, the "shepherd of Caussols" sentenced to life for murder

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