The Alpes-de-Haute-Provence criminal court on Wednesday sentenced the two men prosecuted for the murder in July 2022 of Ireneusz Klysz in Curbans. David Obara was found guilty of willful violence without intent to cause death and served 18 years in prison.
In Curbans, no one has forgotten the murder of Ireneusz Klysz on July 20, 2022. The 61-year-old carpenter, of Polish origin, had been living in the village for around fifteen years.
This Wednesday, November 27, after three days of trial before the criminal court of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in Digne-les-Bains, heavy sentences were handed down against the two men found guilty of “violence leading to death without intention of give it.”
David Obara, who delivered the fatal blows, was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Adam Kasprzyk, who filmed the violence, was sentenced to 5 years in prison with a permanent ban on French territory.
“Everyone will turn the page”
In the town, Marcel and Sylvette, close neighbors of “Irek”, as they nicknamed him, remember the sixty-year-old they knew very well. “I knew him very well, yes. From time to time we went to see him. He told me about his mother who was in Poland. He told me that he would like to go see her, but that he didn't have the means “We didn't hear anything,” she explains on BFM DICI.
Sylvette tells us about the days following the tragedy, no one expected so much violence in the town. “Everyone was in shock. He was a very good person otherwise, cultured, a former cross-country skier. But yes, he had already had problems. When we found out exactly what had happened. It was horrible.”
The village mayor, Laurence Allix, also reacts to the outbreak of violence. “It's really sordid. I've seen the sentences. I think 18 years is a minimum. Everyone will move on now, the neighbors especially. Hoping that it doesn't happen again.”
Marcel, who has lived in Curbans since 1993, learned of Irek's death by telephone; he was in the mountains at the time. It was his wife who informed him of this. “Then I saw the owner of the house and the one who lived with him at the time. They told me what happened, because it was the one who lived with him who discovered it. He was a real butcher. He was a boy who had a very eventful life, who drank a lot, but he had barely stopped drinking for quite some time. massacre because he was physically incapable of defending himself according to me, he had lost a lot physically”, Marcel still remembers.
Acts committed during a drunken night
During the night of July 20, he was beaten to death by his brother-in-law David Obara. The acts were committed by a person acting in a state of obvious intoxication, underlines the newspaper La Provence.
Adam Kasprzyk, the other man present that evening, was found guilty of aggravated complicity in the crime by knowingly recording the violent scenes.
The two men were quickly suspected because clothes filled with blood were found during a house search. Two videos were also found. All consumed alcohol excessively.
Fanny Pechiney with Florent Bascoul
