• The engineer was indicted for the murder of three people in January 2021 in Haut-Rhin, Drôme and Ardèche.

  • Started Tuesday around 7:30 p.m., the reconstruction ended shortly before midnight.

  • Mutic since his arrest, Gabriel Fortin “does not speak and does not defend himself”.

He still hasn't said or explained anything.

The engineer indicted in particular for the assassination of three people in January 2021 in Drôme, Ardèche and Haut-Rhin, again remained silent on Tuesday, during a third reconstitution, we learned. with a civil party lawyer.

Nicknamed the "HRD killer", Gabriel Fortin, 47, arrived shortly after 7 p.m. in a prison administration van in the parking lot of the Knauf company, in Wolfgantzen (Haut-Rhin), where he was found, on January 26, 2021 at the end of the afternoon, the lifeless body of Estelle Luce, 39-year-old HRD, shot dead in her car.

Started around 7:30 p.m., the reconstruction ended shortly before midnight, explained Me Jean-Marc Muller-Thomann, the lawyer for the two children of Estelle Luce and their father, a former companion of the victim.

"No statement to make"

Gabriel Fortin, who "did not want to get out of the van" and indicated that he had "no statement to make", maintained this attitude throughout the reconstitution, explained Me Muller-Thomann.

Mutic since his arrest, Gabriel Fortin "does not speak and does not defend himself", noted the council, explaining that the suspect had however been "invited to come forward" during the reconstitution "if he changed his opinion ".

This reconstruction made it possible “to validate the technical findings” and “the cross-checks that were made” allow “to establish the seriousness of the case against” Mr. Fortin.

The lawyer of the HRD companion at the time of his death as well as that of the Knauf company were present at the reconstitution, unlike those of Mr. Fortin, according to Me Muller-Thomann.

One of the suspect's counsel, Me Lætitia Galland, did not react.

Led by the Valence investigating judge Julie Demesse, in charge of the case, the reconstruction took place mainly at night, in the parking lot lit by streetlights, in order to correspond to the conditions in which the tragedy occurred.

As in the first two reconstructions…

Gabriel Fortin is also suspected of having fired, without touching him, on another HRD, domiciled in Wattwiller (Haut-Rhin), about forty kilometers from Wolfgantzen, the same day of the assassination of Ms. Luce.

This man had worked with her in 2008 in the human resources of a company in Eure-et-Loir from which Gabriel Fortin had been dismissed, according to the Mulhouse prosecution.

This assassination attempt, for which Mr. Fortin was also indicted, will be the subject of a fourth and final reconstitution on Wednesday, in Wattwiller.

Gabriel Fortin had already refused to participate in the two previous reconstitutions organized in Valence (Drôme) in December and in Guilherand-Granges (Ardèche) in March.

The investigations quickly established a link between the events in Alsace and the murders two days later, on January 28, of the HRD of the Faun Environnement company in Guilherand-Granges and then of a Pôle emploi adviser, shot dead in Valence.

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