Willy Bardon, who swallowed "a pesticide" on Friday after the announcement of his 30-year sentence in the Kulik case, is "in a phase of gradual withdrawal from coma" but still in a "critical" state. indicated Saturday evening the prosecutor of Amiens. Still in the resuscitation department, "his condition remains critical when we have not left this phase," told AFP the prosecutor Alexandre Bosschère.
"The product ingested (...) is a pesticide called Temik.It is an extremely dangerous product whose marketing is highly regulated in France and Europe and which has effects on both the nervous system and the system. cardio-vascular, "he continued. "Known Poison", the Temik "is not normally in access for people who do not fit the regulations".
This pesticide "has effects in ten or fifteen minutes," said Alexandre de Bosschère, hailing "the rapid response of both the police escort and firefighters, which was decisive for his state is not even more serious. " The investigation initiated by the prosecution must determine how Willy Bardon procured it and "if it was an act that was premeditated, organized and how."
A pill of very small size
Appearing free at the hearing, Willy Bardon "could very well have come that day with this product," said the magistrate, recalling that he had not been allowed to leave the assembly room during the deliberations. Just before the verdict, the police installed him in the box of the accused and carried out as a precaution "a very thorough search", aimed at "finding any dangerous objects," said the prosecutor.
But "we were faced with a product of very small size" and "unfortunately, this capsule was not seen," he regretted, adding that "legally the search in this situation is not an act obligatory". "He may have had it in his handkerchief," he said. Questioned by his lawyers right after, Willy Bardon "did not explain his gesture".
"I really hope that he will recover from this poisoning (...) it is someone who is entitled today to appeal the decision" and "must bear the consequences of the sentence pronounced (.. .) result of an extremely intense work of the public prosecutor, the investigators and the juries ", concluded Alexandre de Bosschère.