Yanick Morandeau was sentenced this Thursday to 30 years of criminal imprisonment, without a safety period, by the Meurthe-et-Moselle Assize Court for having brutally killed and eviscerated his partner’s lover in 2020. The jurors n did not retain premeditation, nor the alteration of discernment at the time of the facts of the accused, who killed Eric Diard, 48 years old, on September 17 2020.
A 60-year-old man who looks like an everyman
The Attorney General Jérémy Lapertot had requested 30 years of imprisonment with a safety period of 15 years against this 60-year-old entrepreneur who seemed like an everyman, seized by an attack of rage when he discovered his wife in the company of her lover. “The crime committed by Yanick Morandeau is the most serious that exists in our criminal law. I ask you to be severe and to pronounce a sentence commensurate with the savagery that was committed, by which you will remember that the life of Eric Diard was not worth the price of jealousy,” Jérémy Lapertot had asked.
Also injured on the day of the incident, Yanick Morandeau’s partner did not attend the trial, “eaten up by the weight of overwhelming guilt”, according to her lawyer Alexandra Vautrin.
GPS tracker in the car
Doubting the loyalty of his partner, Yanick Morandeau placed a GPS tracker in his vehicle. On September 17, 2020, early in the afternoon, he consulted this GPS tracker 44 times, between 1:05 p.m. and 3:15 p.m., before going to the place where his wife had gone, to check what she was doing.
There, he surprises her in the utility vehicle in gallant company. Her lover, Eric Diard, is a professional musician and distinguished drummer. Yanick Morandeau then lashes out and attacks his rival with a knife. In total, 56 wounds were found on the remains of Eric Diard, whose lifeless body was discovered completely eviscerated by the police in the back of the Citroën Berlingo where the lovers had met.
