Murder of a baker: 27 years imprisonment for the three accused

A woman and two men prosecuted for their involvement in the assassination of a baker in August 2018 in Plonévez-du-Faou, and the attempted assassination of his partner, were each sentenced Friday to 27 years of criminal imprisonment. by the Assize Court of Finistère.

The public prosecutor had requested life imprisonment with a security period of two-thirds for the three accused, namely the wife of the victim from whom he had been separated for two years, Fabienne Mehens, the new companion of that - here, Yves Brassier, as well as the former partner and friend of the latter, Olivier Coudray.

The first two, aged 50, were found guilty of aiding and abetting assassination and aiding and abetting attempted assassination, while the third, aged 41, was convicted of assassination and attempted assassination.

"Relentless mechanics"

Vincent Calvez, 44, had received two bullets in the head on 23 August 2018 shortly after midnight, fired at close range by Olivier Coudray, a former soldier, as he was preparing to leave his home, an isolated farmhouse, for get to work.

His partner, Marie G., aged 27 and present at the hearing, was also shot in the head, but miraculously recovered.

Advocate General Jean-Baptiste Doubliez had referred to an "implacable mechanism" to describe the macabre ambush imagined by Fabienne Mehens, "a stupid idea" for the latter who would not have actually supported the separation.

"It was thought of as a professional job," he said.

While Fabienne Mehens did not really explain why she had the idea to remove Vincent Calvez, Yves Brassier admitted to having asked his friend and partner to kill the baker "out of love" for his partner.

The former soldier and member of the biker gang "Hells Angels", meanwhile assured to be taken "to have peace" against the "insistence" of Fabienne Mehens.

A macabre "Faustian pact"

"Nobody wanted to believe that Fabienne lit a brush fire in the form of an exorcism, stoked by two pyromaniac firefighters", regretted his lawyer Sylvie Couturon, while his colleague Vincent Lauret maintained that his client, Olivier Coudray, had made "a Faustian pact" with Yves Brassier, but had "not the profile of the assassin".

Yves Brassier had driven the vehicle in which Olivier Coudray was seated, to whom the sum of 7,500 euros had been promised.

He then waited for him in the car while the henchman, without bothering to hide his face, coldly executed Vincent Calvez and seriously injured his young companion.

Kneeling next to her companion and turning her back on the killer, the latter had been shot in the back of the head and another in the arm. 

The three defendants maintained throughout the trial which opened on Monday that they did not intend to kill her.

But, for the Advocate General, the fact that Olivier Coudray did not hide his face "is not a coincidence. There should not be living targets, living witnesses," he explained. .

"Marie was on the black list", also noted Ronan Appéré, the lawyer of the young woman to whom it was not possible to withdraw the bullet inserted to 3 cm in the skull at the risk of further damaging her. view.