court – The 65-year-old Frenchman is suspected of having been an accomplice in the assassination of a French couple in Guatemala more than thirty years ago
“What has always displeased me the most is being wrongly accused,” said Thierry Ascione, on the run for more than 20 years, suspected of having been an accomplice in the assassination of a couple. French in Guatemala more than thirty years ago. Before the court retired to deliberate, he denied one last time on Friday before the Paris Assize Court that he was involved in this crime.
True to form, Thierry Ascione, 65, took advantage of the last words granted to the accused in an assize trial to engage in a monologue, often disjointed, lasting around thirty minutes. “Everything I did is called into doubt,” he lamented, recalling that during his run in Central America and then in Asia, between 2000 and 2021, he had “created companies”.
The work of drug traffickers, according to him
He denounced a botched investigation, repeating that, according to him, the assassination of Bernard Béréaud and Marie-Antoinette Perriard, owners of two renowned restaurants in the capital of Guatemala, on the night of December 27 to 28, 1991, was the work of drug traffickers.
The DEA (the American agency fighting drug trafficking) reportedly wiretapped a lounge in one of the Béréaud-Perriard couple’s restaurants where traffickers and soldiers from(…) Read more on 20minutes
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