“Crime of passion is good for novels, theater and journalists but it is not made for criminal courts. » “The crime committed by Yanick Morandeau is the most serious that exists in our criminal law. I ask you to be severe and to impose a sentence commensurate with the savagery that was committed, by which you will remember that the life of Éric Diard was not worth the price of jealousy,” he insisted. .
Premeditation
The two main questions in this trial which began on Monday concerned the premeditation of the act committed by Yanick Morandeau, a 60-year-old entrepreneur with the profile of an ordinary man, and his discernment at the time of the facts.
“Discussions which add to the pain of Éric Diard’s family”, confided their lawyer, Alexandre Grasse, listing all the elements going in the obvious direction of a prepared crime: “the coercive surveillance system put in place at towards his partner, the disturbing letter found in Yanick Morandeau’s nightstand and the fact that he consulted the GPS hidden in his partner’s vehicle 44 times before the crime.
GPS tracker
Alexandra Vautrin, lawyer for the partner of the accused, who was also injured during the incident, recalled that her client was “a devastated woman”. “Eaten by the weight of overwhelming guilt,” she was unable to attend the trial. She only wants one thing today, “that we forget him” so that she can recover from this “tragedy”: “the death of a man of great value, in incredible savagery”.