The prosecution requested life imprisonment on Tuesday against Wojciech Janowski.
Tried on appeal for having ordered the assassinations, on May 6, 2014 in Nice, of his mother-in-law, Monegasque billionaire Hélène Pastor and his butler, the 72-year-old man was sentenced to the same sentence at first instance.
"Without him, nothing happens, everything starts from him," said Pierre Cortes after a long indictment in which he exposed "the avalanche of overwhelming evidence" against the accused.
This justifies, according to him, to condemn him to life imprisonment, with a safety sentence of 22 years.
A "cheater" and a "poor little spirit" according to the civil parties
Last week, Wojciech Janowski defended himself from being behind the deadly ambush.
"I am not guilty, I did nothing and there is no witness," he argued, even accusing in a new about-face Gildo Pallanca-Pastor, the victim's son, of having ordered the assassination.
Confronted with the dissemination of his confessions during his police custody, the accused justified them by his concern to put an end to that of his ex-companion Sylvia Ratkowski-Pastor, the daughter of the businesswoman.
This Tuesday, the lawyers for the civil parties had mistreated the son-in-law, described as a "cheater", "poor little spirit" or even a "Machiavellian" man.
They evoked the motive of money: "Janowski, the glutton, the greedy suppress to obtain money" notably supported Me Dominique Mattéi, the council of Sylvia Ratkowski-Pastor.
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