A 20-year-old young man was sentenced on Tuesday to twelve years' imprisonment by the Var Assize Court for minors for having executed the father of a comrade in 2020, at the latter's request, AFP learned from of his lawyer.
The comrade, aged 15 at the time of the events, had been sentenced in May 2022 to fifteen years' imprisonment by the Draguignan juvenile court for complicity in the murder while he had sought, by having his father eliminated. , to inherit his fortune.
A ball in the head
The perpetrator, who had killed the father with a bullet to the head, will not appeal, said Me Laurent Latapie, his lawyer.
He had argued before the court that his young client had been the victim of “relentless manipulation” by the sponsor.
The sentence, in accordance with the requisitions of the public prosecutor, was deemed satisfactory by the representative of the victim's concubine, Me Alexandra Granier, and will allow her client, "very experienced", to "mourn properly".
In the spring of 2020, the police discovered the father at the family home in Draguignan, slumped on an exercise bike in the garage, a bullet hole in the temple.
The man had died on his way to the hospital.
The investigators had very quickly suspected the son, because of his incoherent declarations, before establishing that he had ordered the murder from a then 17-year-old friend, by providing him with a weapon recovered from the family home.
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