• Olivier Cappelaere was sentenced in 2020 to 25 years in prison for having attempted to poison the owner of one of his apartments purchased for life.

  • The 52-year-old former entrepreneur will be tried all week for the "premeditated poisoning" of a nonagenarian who had made him his universal legatee.

He's back to the assizes.

Already sentenced in 2020 to 25 years' imprisonment for having attempted to poison the owner of one of his apartments purchased as a life annuity, Olivier Cappelaere finds himself accused again in Nice.

With a size difference.

During her first trial, Suzanne Bailly, the victim, survivor, was able to attend the hearing.

This week, only members of the family of Jacqueline Humbert will find themselves facing him, installed on the bench of the civil parties.

This nonagenarian living in Le Cannet, near Cannes, died in troubled circumstances after being hospitalized on November 2, 2014. Olivier Cappelaere, a neighbor with whom she had befriended, had become her self-proclaimed "godchild".

She had made him her universal legatee.

Atropine found in the body

And it is by discovering press articles, evoking from the month of April 2017 the misadventure of Suzanne Bailly, that the relatives of Jacqueline Humbert had made the possible rapprochement.

And if this “life poisoner”, as the press nicknamed him, very close to the old lady in the last years of her life, was not a stranger to her death?

Stunned, a sister and a cousin of the victim had gone to find the police in the wake of the revelation of this first case.

And the body of the woman who died at the age of 92 was exhumed.

Despite the state of decomposition of the corpse, significant concentrations of atropine were then noted, in particular “in the heart and in the liver”, according to Me Ariane Kabsch, the lawyer for the family of Jacqueline Humbert.

Either exactly the same substance, contained in veterinary eye drops, that Olivier Cappelaere had admitted having poured into the water of his creditor Suzanne Bailly.

Causing her several illnesses and hospitalizations without however killing her.

"Premeditated poisoning"

Would he have proceeded in the same way to hope to touch the inheritance of the nonagenarian more quickly?

The prosecution thinks so.

Until the end of the week, the 52-year-old former entrepreneur will be tried for "premeditated poisoning".

With the same motive, the lure of gain.

"Passionate about real estate" according to his wife, with whom he had bought no less than five real estate properties in life, Olivier Cappelaere "cannot bear the idea of ​​running out of money", explained a psychologist responsible for drawing his portrait. during his first trial.

From this Monday, his defense will not question the ties that united him to Jacqueline Humbert, but she will reject all the charges.

The verdict is expected on Friday.

The 50-year-old faces life imprisonment.

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