2023-11-22 18:39:09
Three hours of interrogation. Phrases that remain in suspense, “panic” invoked in an attempt to explain, failing to explain the sequence of the drama. Standing in the box, this Wednesday, November 22, Jérôme Jalabert repeats over and over his version of the events of April 28, 2021. He appears before the Gironde Assize Court for the murder of Frédéric Thomas, in front of his home in…
Three hours of interrogation. Phrases that remain in suspense, “panic” invoked in an attempt to explain, failing to explain the sequence of the drama. Standing in the box, this Wednesday, November 22, Jérôme Jalabert repeats over and over his version of the events of April 28, 2021. He appears before the Gironde Assize Court for the murder of Frédéric Thomas, in front of his home in Saugon.
Accumulated resentments, suspicions of jealousy, accusation of burglary, all fueled by alcohol and drugs: everything has been said regarding the reasons which pushed the victim and Angélo Ziegler, himself tried for willful violence, to burst into the house. the accused, that late April evening. The three are “narcotics relations”, said Jérôme Jalabert. The stampede caused in the office turned into a fight on the terrace, and the duo ended up fleeing, the accused drawing a pistol.
Two shots
Two shots were fired in the alley, including one fatal to Frédéric Thomas. He only has time to get into his car, which Angélo Ziegler has already started, before losing consciousness. Did Jérôme Jalabert aim at the victim or try, as he claims, to shoot in the air, the shots going off too quickly as he raised his arm? “I fired two shots. I saw the car moving forward and the passenger door open. Thomas got in, I said to myself: ‘That’s it, they’re gone.'”
Messrs Valérie Pellenc and Philippe Nougaret, lawyers for the civil parties.
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The accused served “five different and contradictory versions of the events”
President Marie-Noëlle Billaud won’t let go: “Why shoot? If you hear the sound of the car, they are regarding to leave. » “Stress, panic,” replies the accused. Jérôme Jalabert goes so far as to say: “For me, when I shot, they were both in the car. » Problem, points out the magistrate, during his first hearing before the gendarmes, on April 29, he placed Frédéric Thomas on a drawing at the entrance to the alley. “Right on the axis, in front of you,” asserts Me Philippe Nougaret, lawyer for the civil parties.
” Cleared ! »
“When I finished shooting, I saw Fred moving forward in the car” in the light of the street lamp, maintains the accused. Before showing “cowardice”, he repeats, by fleeing, the accused would have shown himself indifferent to the drama that was unfolding. According to Ziegler, who returns to the house in search of help, Jérôme Jalabert is busy looking for shell casings in his driveway and is said to have said “get out!” »: “He didn’t give a damn…”
“I said to him: ‘Why don’t you take him to the hospital?’”, opposes Jérôme Jalabert. The president: “You didn’t say to yourself ‘but what’s going on?'” If it’s unintentional, why run away? » “I had killed someone, I was in panic, I don’t know…” It’s the turn of the attorney general Jean-Luc Gadaud: “There is a corpse in front of your house and you take the time to recover a bag ? » And to recall that the accused served “five different and contradictory versions on the course of the events”. Back to square one: “Perhaps I myself don’t know exactly,” breathes Jérôme Jalabert. Verdict Thursday November 23.
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