2023-10-06 10:16:00
The Namur Assize Court on Friday handed down a 25-year prison sentence once morest Francis Vandy, found guilty on Thursday of the murders of Constantin Tomescu, Gabriel Ghelmegeanu and offenses once morest the law on weapons.
In its judgment, the Assize Court took into account the extreme seriousness of the facts, which caused the violent death of 2 men, and the consequences for the victims’ families. But also the audacity, the determination, the violence shown by the condemned, when only his property rights were infringed. Vandy’s personality, the function he held within the police, his personality, his lack of regrets and empathy are also discussed. His state of health and his age were taken into account as extenuating circumstances.
Attorney General Hustin had earlier in the day requested 23 years in prison for the murderer, while the murderer’s defense asked the jurors to recognize 2 mitigating circumstances for him: his precarious state of health and his age. on the one hand and the repeated intrusions on his land on the other hand.
The Namur Assize Court on Thursday found Francis Vandy, 73, guilty of the murder of Gabriel Ghelmegeanu. The latter’s premeditation, the issue at stake in this second assize trial, was not accepted by the jurors, who considered that the short time between the two fatal shots did not allow him to premeditate his crime. .
The accused was found guilty of murder and assassination and offenses once morest the weapons law on September 29, 2022 and sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Hainaut Assize Court. Decision which was overturned by the Court of Cassation on February 8, 2023. The jurors of the Namur Assize Court only had to rule on the premeditation of the murder of Gabriel Ghelmegeanu. Francis Vandy, former member of the federal judicial police, admitted to having shot on August 28, 2019 in Forchies-la-Marche (Fontaine-l’Evêque) two brothers of Romanian origin who were fishing at the edge of his pond.
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