On April 24, 2020, a man was killed at his home by a bullet in the head in a well-to-do district of Draguignan in the Var.
The victim's son has already been convicted in this case.
He is accused of having ordered this murder when he was only 15 years old, against a large sum of money from his father's inheritance.
This Monday, it is the turn of the alleged shooter to appear before the assize court for minors in Var.
The teenager, in love with the son of the victim, was 17 years old at the time of the facts.
A man killed at the request of his own son, by his secret lover, against the backdrop of an inheritance, in an opulent villa in Draguignan.
This Monday, the assize court for minors in Var is looking into the murder of a fifty-year-old who occurred in April 2020, commissioned by his then 15-year-old teenager.
20 Minutes
returns to this hearing held behind closed doors.
What are the facts ?
On April 24, 2020, the police went to a large villa in the chic Teissonnières district in Draguignan, at the request of young K., then 15 years old.
France is then in full confinement.
In the garage of the family home, the police find the teenager's father on an exercise bike, shot in the head.
The victim, in his fifties, lived in this opulent house with his son and his new partner.
He also owned several other properties.
Questioned by the investigators, young K. explains that he heard a gunshot and then tried to flee.
Unconvinced by these statements, the police decided to place the teenager in custody.
And during the security searches, the police will make an unexpected discovery.
In the boy's trouser pocket is a handwritten letter, written in red ink, stating, "If you kill him, I had the house and everything."
A letter signed by the teenager himself.
Shortly after the events, the victim's partner found another sheet of paper in her son-in-law's room, with a message: "If you kill him, you have 2,000 euros and there will be no problems with the cops, you don't worry, but I want him dead".
When questioned, a neighbor attests to having seen K. in the company of another teenager on the day of the incident.
The latter, E., was quickly identified by the police and arrested.
In front of the investigators, E., then aged 17, confesses to the investigators the day after the assassination that he killed K.'s father at his request.
What is the motive of the victim's son?
At the material time, K. had been living with his father for three years.
His parents separated when he was only six months old.
First entrusted to his mother, the young man lives with his father because of a difficult and rebellious adolescence.
The investigators discover that, for almost a year, the teenager had solicited several sponsors in his entourage to kill his father against a large sum of money, contract in support, but without the process ever succeeding.
K. mentions his plan to E. for the first time on the day of the announcement of confinement by Emmanuel Macron.
He claims to be the victim of violence from his father, which his relatives deny.
K. promises E. 230,000 euros as a reward, i.e. half the price of the house at which his father planned to sell it.
K. also provides E. with the revolver which is in the family home.
"Several motives were alternately put forward by the indicted, violence on the part of the father or even the lure of gain in the perspective of the inheritance", can we read in the indictment order.
Questioned by the investigators, K.'s mother-in-law underlines the venality of the teenager, who told his relatives that he imagined wanting a lot of money without having to work.
K. was sentenced last May to fifteen years' imprisonment.
And what is the motive of E., judged on Monday?
At the material time, E. had known K. for five years.
In front of the investigators, the teenager explains that he initially found his friend's proposal to kill his father crazy and shocking.
“Then K. harassed him daily asking him again and again to take action,” the indictment reads.
He began to change his mind when K. told him that there were 460,000 euros at stake. he was abused by his father and wanted to protect him.
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“My client has a certain psychological fragility that his friend was able to exploit, says Me Laurent Latapie, lawyer for E. He felt a little lonely, even more so during this period of confinement.
He is a rather simple man, not to say simpleton.
He's a boy who can't say no.
He also harbored somewhat romantic feelings for him.
He had promised her that after that, they would both go to Belgium.
This attraction for K. would have partly motivated E. who, at the last moment, according to his lawyer, would have given up his act.
“But he killed the victim by pushing the dog [part which is used to strike the primer of a cartridge of a firearm]”, reports Me Laurent Latapie.
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