“Generous, smiling, very sociable, who knew everyone in Quiberon. » If we have not yet succeeded in shedding light on the murder of Guillaume Bertincourt, everyone still agrees that the thirty-year-old was sunny. A “hard worker” who worked in restaurants in Quiberon (56) and who lived with his partner, in the same house as his sister and her partner.
A very close-knit family who had left the Dordogne to come to Brittany, to be with their maternal grandmother. His childhood sweetheart had even joined him, six years after a first relationship in Dordogne. She was three months pregnant when she suffered a miscarriage, a fortnight before her brother's murder. “So I don’t know if my brother was having a good week. In any case, he had reduced the drugs to be a good father,” says his little sister, devastated.
Convicted of robbery in 2012
The autopsy determined that Guillaume Bertincourt had consumed alcohol and cocaine “less than five hours before his death”. “Neither angel nor demon, he had his past, good and bad things,” concedes his sister. His brother was known to the courts for a robbery with a weapon which landed him in prison for several years. He was also convicted of drug use and trafficking in 2018.
His mother was aware of her son's criminal past but had no idea of his current problems, his cocaine use, his debt. “We don’t understand all this,” she said in a sob. He was very secretive, caring. » His family finds it hard to believe that he could have been at the origin of this fight despite the unequivocal text messages sent to his friends – “Fight at Lanester” – and the sharp garden tool with which he had equipped himself, a serfouette. “I don’t think my brother molested him. If he took a tool, it was to scare people. He perhaps had a debt but not in the amounts cited (2,000 euros, Editor's note). »
A family who thinks the trial will end without ever having obtained all the answers. “I feel like there are lies everywhere. I think I'll never have the truth. » The accused, Guillaume Lieury, says today that he agreed to give drugs to Guillaume Bertincourt to get closer to his sister, with whom he was in love. While he has always kept his head held high since the start of his trial, he was unable to raise it when the family, torn by pain, spoke.
