Jonathan Lehrer, the neighbor accused of killing Quebec entrepreneur Daniel Langlois and his partner Dominique Marchand in 2023 in the West Indies, has just been released on conditions on Tuesday, while the Dominican justice system is struggling to organize his trial.
Posted at 12:21 p.m.
News of his release on bail was confirmed to The Press by representatives of Mr. Lehrer and by a local lawyer in Dominica.
Jonathan Lehrer and another American, Robert Snider, were charged in December 2023 with the murder of the Quebec couple. They were kept detained, but the procedures stalled.
According to the theory of the Dominican police, the Quebec couple would have been shot dead in the wake of a neighborhood conflict. An access road to the Quebecois resort, opening in 2022, passes through land belonging to Mr. Lehrer, 57 years old. The latter was unhappy to see vacationers and employees passing through his property.
The conflict escalated to the point where, during construction of the complex, Mr. Lehrer allegedly blocked the road, angering local residents.
According to the police hypothesis, the Langlois-Marchand couple were caught in an ambush on a road on the island. Both were reportedly shot and killed on the spot. Their car was then allegedly pushed down the road and set on fire. The assassin himself was apparently accidentally burned at this time and arrested shortly afterwards.
During the investigation, the “extreme conditions of the fire made the bodies unidentifiable, forcing investigators to rely on circumstantial evidence linking them to the couple,” the local media has already written Dominica News Online.
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