"Angry", "introverted", "emotionally immature" ... Born in Arras in 1972, David Hotyat - who made two suicide attempts in prison - was not used to being seen as an altar boy. Neither in the North, nor in Haute-Savoie. This former tank pilot was even known to those around him for his sudden outbursts and a disturbing propensity to threaten death. As in 2000, in Pas-de-Calais, with one of his 80-year-old neighbors to whom he told, about a fence problem: "I'm going to come and suffocate you during the night and set fire to your house. your house. "I will put a bullet in his head and make him disappear in the mountain", he had also confided to one of his friends about an acquaintance. As soon as he arrived in Le Grand-Bornand, tensions appeared in his relationship with Xavier Flactif.At the end of 2001, a first algarade opposed them. Then in June 2002, tired of the successive moves imposed by its owner, Hotyat anonymously called the gendarmerie. He claims to be "capable of doing anything" against Xavier Flactif. Flanked by Stéphane Haremza, he went so far as to burn down a chalet belonging to the one he called a “crook”. A crime which earned the two accomplices to be sentenced in December 2004 to three years in prison.A crime which earned the two accomplices to be sentenced in December 2004 to three years in prison.A crime which earned the two accomplices to be sentenced in December 2004 to three years in prison.

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According to the lawyer of Flactif, David Hotyat lived under a form of moral control of his companion, Alexandra Lefebvre, presented as greedy for luxury and comfort.

Was Hotyat a puppet?

Justice has three weeks to respond.