The verdict is in.
Willy Bardon was sentenced this Thursday to 30 years of criminal imprisonment by the North Assize Court of Appeal, for rape in assembly, kidnapping and forcible confinement followed by the death of Elodie Kulik in 2002, the same sentence as first case.
The court followed the requisitions of the Advocate General, confirming the sentence handed down in 2019 by the Assize Court of the Somme, nearly twenty years after the death of the 24-year-old bank branch manager, kidnapped in her car , raped, strangled and burned during the night of January 10 to 11, 2002 in Tertry (Somme).
In this case, no formal scientific evidence overwhelms Willy Bardon, and the investigators' methods are contested.
But the gendarmes drew up 23,000 reports, carried out 5,500 DNA samples, exploited "hundreds of leads", detailed the general deputy Annelise Cau, deeming the investigation "serious".
"Thirty years is a suitable sentence," concluded the general counsel.
“This is not even the length of Elodie Kulik's short life.
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