Wojciech Janowski was convicted in 2018 to have sponsored the murder of Millionaire Monegasque and had been sentenced at first instance to life imprisonment.
Le Monde
He had been sentenced in the first instance, in 2018, to the perpetuity imprisonment for sponsoring the assassination of his mother-in-law, Hélène Pastor, and his driver, Mohamed Darwich. The calling trial of the Monegasque billionaire son, Wojciech Janowski, opened on Monday, October 18, in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône).
“I’m not guilty, I’m innocent, I did not do anything, it’s a conspiracy, an assembly. My lawyer will explain everything to you,” said Janowski, 72 years old, relaxed jacket Gray and impeccable white hair. Accustomed to the Volte-Face, the former Honorary Consul of Poland in Monaco returned to the spectacular stage of his former lawyer, the current sealkeeper, Eric Dupond-Moretti, at the end of the first trial in 2018: “He betrayed me. He pleaded guilty in my place,” he explained.
Faced with him, on the Civil Party Bench, Sylvia Ratkowski-Pastor, who shared his life for twenty-eight years and with whom he had a daughter, remained impassive, right in his green and white Vichy jacket. In 2018, Mr. Janowski had been sentenced to life prison for sponsoring the murder of his mother-in-law and his driver. On May 6, 2014, the latter had been mortally wounded by bullets in front of a Nice hospital where Hélène Pastor had visited his son, Gildo, victim of a stroke (stroke).
the Son of Hélène Pastor accuses her sister
For the Prosecution, the mobile has always been the money. Hélène Pastor was one of the biggest fortunes in Monaco, heiress of an estimated real estate empire at 12 billion euros. She gave each of her children 500,000 euros a month.
Gildo Pallanca-Pastor, who has to move with a cane since his stroke, believes that “everything has not been said” in this file. In recent days, it has been delivered to a family unpacking on television and in Paris-Match , openly questioning the” duplicity “of his sister, with whom he has has no contact. “My sister, you know, it is by her that everything is going, it is the head of the family,” said Mr. Pallanca-Pastor, on the margins of hearings. The trial must last until 19 November in the Court of Appeal Assize Bouches-du-Rhône.
The possible role of Sylvia “is not the subject of the trial,” swept his lawyer, Dominique Mattei. His client had been placed in custody shortly after the facts and released without prosecution.
The old coach “assume everything” what he did
In the box also was Pascal Dauriac, the former sports coach of Mr. Janowski, of which he was very close, sentenced to thirty years of imprisonment at first instance. “I assume everything I did,” he maintained Monday. It is the main accuse of Mr. Janowski, who ordered him to kill billionaire and organize the flight of his bag to make believe in a crapful crime.
At his side took place two Marseillais of Comorian origin, Al-Haïr Hamadi and Samine Saïd Ahmed, suspected for one of being the watchman and the second the author of the shots. They were sentenced, like the son-in-law, to life prison in 2018.
Al-Haïr Hamadi acknowledged on Monday being the watcher, his lawyer, Jeremiah Dilmi, promising outside the hearing that “the Word was going to free himself” during this new trial. Samine Said Ahmed did not make a statement. Omer Lohore, a close to the watchman, acknowledged at first instance, appears free. It always claims its innocence, ensuring not being “a crappe”.