The Court of Appeal Court of Bouches-du-Rhône confirmed the sentence of first instance against Wojciech Janowski for sponsoring the assassination of his mother-in-law and his Egyptian butler in 2014, in Nice.
Le Monde with AFP
This is the epilogue of a resounding case that shook the Principality of Monaco, including the Pastor family, at the head of a real estate empire, is one of the best known. The son-in-law of Monegasque Hélène Pastor, Wojciech Janowski, was sentenced on Friday, November 12 on appeal to the perpetual criminal imprisonment for sponsoring the assassination of his mother-in-law and his Egyptian butler in 2014, in Nice.
The Court of Appeal Court of Bouches-du-Rhône confirmed the sentence of first instance against the former Honorary Consul of Poland in Monaco but did not pronounce the security sentence as required by the General Counsel. The authors of the facts, the shooter and the watchman, were also again convicted of perpetuity.
“May Janowski plead guilty or not guilty, he is sentenced to perpetual criminal imprisonment. So you imagine that for us the fight is not over,” reacted his lawyer, M e Jean-Jacques Campana, announcing an appeal in cassation.
“Justice has been made and well rendered”
Pascal Dauriac, the former sports coach of Mr. Janowski, saw his eight-year-old sentence with the first trial, twenty-two years in prison. He has always recognized his participation in the organization of the fatal watchtower and asked for “pardon” to the families of Hélène Pastor and the Egyptian butler Mohamed Darwich during the trial.
Finally, Omer Lohore, suspected of having played the wrestler between the watchman and the shooter, paid at first instance, is this time not exposed to the Court of Appeal, sentenced to a sentence of Six years of imprisonment.
“Justice has been made and well reacted,” reacted quickly after the sentence statement M e Jean-Robert Phung, lawyer of Pascal Dauriac, tears in his eyes for his client who does not did not want to appeal and who finally sees his sentence significantly reduced.
On May 6, 2014, Hélène Pastor, 77 years old, and his Egyptian driver Mohamed Darwich, 63, had been fatally wounded by bullets in front of the Nice Hospital where she had visited her son, Gildo, victim d ‘a stroke.