Death for a soldering iron: 22 and 18 years of criminal imprisonment were required Thursday at the Assizes of Var against a retired couple accused of having killed their alleged thief with a pistol and then burning him in his vehicle.
He called her “my Louloute”: Henri Dauriat, 78, a former truck driver, had a relationship with Chantal Delmarche, 10 years his junior, of Belgian nationality.
Both are dented by life, especially her, a small woman with white hair in a ponytail.
Two marriages, one with a "violent and pedophile" man.
And the memory of a father who, until he was 16, "forbade him to cry", she testified Thursday in Draguignan.
Described as "gruff, boorish" and "unaffected" by experts, Henri is passionate about DIY: "Tools are my whole life, maybe not as important as a human life, but still" , he blurted out.
“Neither a criminal backpacker, nor a professional criminal”, according to the defense
Their victim, Marc Tari, a 51-year-old neighbor, had alcohol and drug problems.
He had "lost a lot of weight, cancer was suspected," said his sister at the helm.
In October 2018, the corpse of this father of five children was found in the trunk of his car, charred, in Besse-sur-Issole, in the Var hinterland.
Respectively indicted for murder and complicity in murder, Mr. Dauriat and his companion are accused of having shot Mr. Tari with a pistol, then of having placed him in the trunk of his car before setting fire to it. this.
According to the experts, the victim, hit by two bullets, was still alive when the vehicle caught fire.
The day after the events, Mr. Dauriat left hastily for Puy-de-Dôme.
Arrested by the gendarmes, his alleged accomplice had never joined him.
"In the box, you have neither a backpacker of crime like Francis Heaulme, nor a professional of the crime", insisted the lawyer of Henri Dauriat, Me Olivier Lantelme, by requesting the requalification of the charge in " aggravated violence causing death without intention to give it”.
“Hellish couple” according to the civil parties
At the trial, which opened on Monday, Mr. Dauriat maintained that he acted out of anger, when he accused the victim of stealing a soldering iron from him four years earlier.
He was probably also angry with "Marco" for coveting his companion when he "had already stolen a chick", recalled the Advocate General.
A fight would have broken out between the future victim and Chantal.
His companion, who went to get a pistol, then allegedly fired twice.
The couple then placed the victim in the trunk of their car, before shackling his wrist and ankle with a pair of handcuffs, then driving the car into the scrubland, doused him with gasoline and to set it on fire.
Ms. Delmarche, who presents herself as a "good granny", denied having participated in the fire of the car.
Traces of soot discovered on his shoes, however, seem to prove the opposite.
“But apart from the shoes, where is the evidence?
“, protested Adam Krid, Ms. Delmarche’s lawyer, asking for the acquittal of his client.
"Madame Delmarche tells us: 'I'm telling you the truth.'
But we are at fifteen truths, ”assaulted the Advocate General, David Malicot, during his requisitions.
“I do not attach any importance to your words, because they are not credible”, he launched to the accused.
This duo described as "infernal couple" by the lawyers for the civil parties will know their fate on Friday.
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