On October 5, 2017, a burglary went wrong in the Saint-Adrien garden, in Servian. A burglar is killed by the owner. The France 2 program returned to this affair which resulted in the conviction of Daniel Malgouyres to fifteen years in prison, long suspected of having himself ordered the burglary.
“Between secrets, greed and betrayal”. “Murder in Paradise”… The first minutes of the documentary “At the end of the investigation, the end of the perfect crime” quickly set the tone.
This Saturday, April 27, the France 2 program devoted to the most thorny news items, was devoted to the Malgouyre affair, named after the owner of the Saint-Adrien garden, in Servian, guilty of having killed one of the burglars came to steal the contents of his safe, October 5, 2017.
The French’s favorite garden
In the region, everyone remembers this affair, which took place in the magnificent Hérault site, chosen a few years earlier on France 2, in a program by Stéphane Bern, “favorite garden of the French”. A wonderful setting that the Malgouyre couple, Daniel and Françoise, took years to develop before opening it to the public.
A long investigation
But everything stopped with this attempted burglary which turned into a tragedy. Through further investigation, investigators will later suspect the owner of having organized the homejacking himself, in order to recover his wife’s savings during a stormy separation. On December 13, 2022, at the age of 73, he was definitively sentenced on appeal to 15 years in prison for the murder of the burglar, but was acquitted of criminal association. At first instance, his sentence was 18 years.
The program returns to both the burglary, with the strong testimony of Françoise Malgouyres and the entire course of the investigation. François Barrère, our police-justice journalist who followed the whole affair, is one of the witnesses, like Maître Darrigade, lawyer for Daniel Malgouyres. Watch in replay, from the FranceTV platform.
