Sometimes you have to repeat things to Serge Tixier. Raise your voice and speak loudly into the microphone. Despite being deaf in his left ear, the fifty-year-old heard André Malecki yelling at his daughter on the phone on September 5, 2021. Enough to take his threats seriously and offer to go meet him, “to find out what was going on”.
Deadly Appointment
The deadly meeting took place on Chemin des Guines in Garéoult, a place well known to walkers. “but also drug users” specifies the gendarmerie major of the Brignoles research brigade who led the investigation.
It is there, at the end of a heated discussion lasting just a few minutesthat Serge Tixier stabbed André Malecki 13 times.
Tried for murder before the Var Assize Court in Draguignan since Monday, Serge Tixier immediately presented “his sincere condolences“to the victim’s family.”I think about it every dayhe admits. Every evening. I have a death on my conscience forever.“
However, if he denies having gone to meet André Malecki to kill, it never occurred to him to call the police or let the victim’s anger towards his daughter pass.
Anger having arisen for a trivial reason: a blanket or a duvet belonging to André and that someone “a pris“during a”soirée“.
Blanket, duvet… Cocaine? The investigation was unable to establish this, even though this drug as well as ketamine were discovered in the victim’s blood.
Far from these considerations, Serge Tixier claims to have heard André Malecki say that he “was going to catch [sa] girl“. “She was crying. Who would I have been as a father if I hadn’t asked him for explanations?“
Fearing having to deal with several young people, Serge Tixier grabbed a kitchen knife with a blade measuring 16.5cm. “Today, we can lynch a little old man who asks us to make less noise, so… I told myself that the knife would calm him down right away. I wasn’t going to kill anyone.“
Moreover, he maintains, it was only after being pushed by André Malecki and having fallen to the ground that Serge Tixier grabbed his knife, which had meanwhile fallen out of the back pocket of his pants. At the sight of him, André Malecki would have seen red. He then headed towards the trunk of his car.
To also take his knife, found during the search? The accused is convinced of this. After having tried in vain to close the trunk, he delivered a first blow while the victim had his hand in the trunk. Twelve others will follow.
“When you have a weapon, you always use it”
“Every time, the one who is wrong is the one who makes contactphilosopher President Patrick Véron. When you have a weapon, you always use it…” – “My daughter was panicked…” the accused pitifully justifies himself.
Not by the numerous SMS exchanged between her and the victim in the hours preceding the events, considers the president. A conversation at first cordial, then more and more lively.
“Can you tell those who took my quilt to give it back to me? Sincerely” writes the forty-year-old at 12:21 p.m. “I want my stuff and fast. Or is it the police” he sends around 5:30 p.m. “Calling the police is not a hyper-threatening message“puts the court into perspective.
Immediately after the events, Serge Tixier did not call for help. But his daughter.
