• From this Friday, Marlène Dietrich, 40, will appear before the Assize Court of the Alpes-Maritimes.

  • She is accused of having played a role in the disappearance of Thibault Fenu, 32 years old at the time.

  • The debates should last six days.

What happened on October 22, 2015 in Le Cannet, in the Alpes-Maritimes?

Where is Thibault Fenu's body?

What is the reason for Seeman Mansour's suicide in March 2016?

The Assize Court of the Alpes-Maritimes in Nice will try to answer these questions through the trial of Marlène Dietrich, who is the link of the tragic stories of the two young men.

This 40-year-old woman, namesake of the actress of

The Blue Angel

, is accused of murder and has been on trial since Friday to determine the role she played in these disappearances.

According to information from

Parisian

, Marlène Dietrich had a relationship with these two people, almost at the same time.

Thibault, 32 at the time, fell in love with her in 2013 while on vacation on the French Riviera.

He then moved in with her for a few months before returning to Paris, in despair at the too great task of protecting the woman he loved from a so-called network of pimps.

Seeman, aged 17 at the start of the relationship which began in August 2015, suffering from schizophrenia, was also crazy about her to the point of developing a deep hatred towards Thibault whom he believed violent towards Marlène according to what she told him. was telling.

A deadly encounter

The two men will only meet once.

The evening of October 22, 2015, at Le Cannet.

Marlène, who landed in Paris a few days earlier, manages to convince Thibault to return with her to the Côte d'Azur.

Once there, the latter, feeling followed from the station, sends text messages to his mother, telling her the address of his companion.

According to the testimonies of Seeman's friends, Thibault would then have been killed by the minor, who would have followed the directives of his lover.

They then both left to bury the body.

Thibault's mother, Marguerite de Saint-Mareville, without news of her son for five days, then went to see Marlène, whom she found very calm and who told her that he had already left.

Not convinced, Marguerite reports to the Cannes police station the worrying disappearance of her child.

The investigators will find a few months later, Seeman, barely of age, hanged in the forest.

A video of him suggests a confession: “I know I'm not a killer, […] I can't do it anymore.

I will never be able to live with this because I no longer have my own Cataleya”, the nickname he had chosen for Marlène, which refers to a flower from the orchid family and means “pretty flower” or “flower Divine ".

Marlène ends up admitting in police custody that she witnessed a fight "that would have gone wrong" between her two lovers.

But eventually retracts.

A “manipulative tendency”

Also according to

Le Parisien

, she was examined by an expert who then concluded that she has a "tendency to manipulation" and a "fabulatory ease" in connection with a traumatic history, a sexual assault from a companion of her mother. .

It also paints the portrait of a woman marked by early affective deficiencies and an “experience of abandonment”, in constant search of attention.

In detention for five years, she intends to prove her innocence during this trial, the proceedings of which are to last six days.

Above all, Thibault's mother demands, "that she say where the body of [son] child is", relates

Nice-Matin

.

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