Accused of a triple assassination, a man tried in June 2023 in the Drôme

The trial of a 45-year-old man could open as early as June 2023 and for three weeks before the Drôme Assize Court in Valence.

Nicknamed the "HRD killer", he will have to answer for three assassinations as well as an assassination attempt between Alsace, Drôme and Ardèche, reports

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The forties had been dismissed from his job in Chartres (Eure-et-Loir) in 2006. He is accused of having killed a 39-year-old director of human resources (HRD) in January 2021 in the Haut-Rhin and of having attempted to murder his colleague, both charged with his dismissal.

Life imprisonment

Two days later, the man would also have killed a team leader at the Pôle emploi agency in Valence, from which he had been expelled in 2013. The last assassination took place in Ardèche where another 51-year-old HRD had was shot dead.

She also worked in a company where the man had been made redundant in 2010.

“Four criminal proceedings dismissed at the same time, it is quite exceptional,” said a lawyer for the family of a victim.

The accused faces life imprisonment.

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• Valence

• Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

• Assassination

• Human ressources

• assize court