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Agnès Frémiot
This Sunday, June 30, Make between the accused will look at the crimes of Fabrice Motch. Initially accused of multiple sexual assaults, the volunteer firefighter was tried for the murder of his partner Yannick’s husband.
One news item can sometimes hide another. Make between the accused This Sunday, June 30, is looking at a particularly sordid affair in an episode called The black Knight. The RMC Découverte show looks back on the crimes of Fabrice Motch, a former fire captain, aged 44 at the time of his trial. On September 15, 2007, the police forces invaded the barracks where he officiated after a call from a panicked teenager, who accused Fabrice Motch of having sexually assaulted him. They discover the fire captain alongside an unconscious young boy, who will make the same accusations against him.
Fabrice Motch was first accused of sexual assault
In the firefighter’s digital camera, the police identified photos and videos of naked young people. During the search of his home, child pornography files were found on the firefighter’s computer. During the investigations, Fabrice Motch admitted the facts and confessed to having attacked and raped four other teenagers, as well as his partner’s two sons. The investigation takes a major turn when the suspect’s sister reveals that her brother is a murderer. In 1996, he killed, with his brother Lionel and his wife Yannick, Philippe Pico, a 45-year-old mechanic who shared the life of his mistress and his future partner. They killed him by strangling him and stabbing him, after drugging him. They then left him to bleed out in the bathtub. To get rid of the body, they dismembered it, before scattering its body in the garbage and in the Seine.
What was Fabrice Motch’s defense during his murder trial?
The Motch brothers went on trial for this murder in September 2017. Fabrice Motch then explained that he had ended Philippe Pico’s life in order to protect Yannick, his mistress who was allegedly the victim of domestic violence. “A number of alarm signals had been sounded”he justified himself at the time. “Pico was a domestic tyrant, violent and alcoholic. I decided to kill him after talking with him one evening in the streets of Chevreuse. Pico told me that he thought his wife had a lover. He didn’t know that it was me. He told me he was going to find it, smoke it and that there would be gasoline for everyone at Christmas. He was talking about his wife and his children. he had declared during his trial. Yannick had validated Fabrice Motch’s accusations, explaining that her husband had abused and humiliated her when he was under the influence of alcohol and that she feared for her life. At the end of his trial, Fabrice Motch received life imprisonment and Yannick was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
