Jerome Gaillard had recognized, on March 19, killed the mother of their four children, a 42-year-old specialty, who had left a few months earlier.
Le Monde with AFP
Magali Blandin’s husband, who had recognized on March 19 the murder of his wife near Rennes, committed suicide in prison, was he learned, Monday 1 November, of source close to the file.
Jérôme Gaillard had recognized he killed, on February 11, with the mother of their four children, a 42-year-old specialty, who had left her a few months earlier.
The suspect gave death by hanging, on Sunday night to Monday, in Vezin-le-Coquet Prison (Ille-et-Vilaine) near Rennes, according to this source. He had left a letter preventing his intention and had been placed in a neighborhood for vulnerable detainees, it was stated.
“Criminal conspiracy”
The body of Magali Blandin had been found in March in a wood a few kilometers from the husband’s home, more than a month after his disappearance. He had been located on the indication of his husband, who had confessed to killing his wife with baseball bats, on the background of “criminal conspiracy”.
His disappearance had been reported on February 12 by a colleague, herself alerted by the school finding that she had not come to recover her children, aged at the time of the facts of 4, 7, 12 and 14 years old .
Jérôme GAILLARD, 45, had confessed in custody “to be the author of the premeditated murder of his wife with whom he was pending divorce”. Magali Blandin had left her husband in September 2020.
Parents also incarcerated
The parents of Jérôme Gaillard, aged 72 and 75, as well as relatives of the Georgian community who then made the husband sing, were also involved in varying degrees in this “criminal conspiracy”, according to the terms the prosecutor of the Republic of Rennes, Philippe Astruc, during the discovery of the body.
Currently incarcerated and indicted for “attempt of complicity of murder by spouse” and “complicity of murder by spouse”, parents, retired farmers without a judicial history, devastated by suicide, ten years ago , from their other son then he also pending divorce, acknowledged that he has helped their last son in his criminal project. In a first confrontation with the assassin alleged in October, they also recognized having been informed of his plans before Christmas 2020.