This real-false burglary had been orchestrated to steal his wife, with whom he was pending divorce.
Le Monde with AFP
It was so far known as the lucky owner of the “favorite garden of the French”. Daniel Malgouyres, 72, was sentenced on Friday, December 17 by the Assize Court of Herault to eighteen years of imprisonment. After eleven hours of deliberation, the jury found him guilty of organizing an attempt to extortion in 2017 on his own wife, Françoise Malgouyres, during a false burglary of their property near Beziers – Spraction sponsored during the course of which he had killed one of the criminals, David Viers, 43, without being in a state of self-defense.
Richard Llop, a 56-year-old horse breeder who was close to the Malgouyres couple, for his part, was sentenced to eight years in prison for participating in organizing burglary. Richard Bruno, 57, the surviving burglar, has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
Jean-Pierre Bruno, 81, Richard Bruno’s father, accused of having helped Richard Llop recruit the two burglars, will be judged later, his state of health did not allow his appearance this fall.
Defense denounces “a fable”
Daniel Malgouyres, who was also pursued for attempted murder on Richard Bruno for pulling in his direction while he flew, was acquitted with this charge.
“I am totally innocent,” launched from the box of the accused Daniel Malgouyres, who has ten days to appeal his conviction. His lawyers had argued Thursday the acquittal, believing that the Prosecution had designed a “fable” that it had not managed to support irrefutable evidence, despite four years of investigation and three weeks of a high-profile trial. .
Daniel Malgouyres and his wife, Françoise, had acquired the careers of Servian, where he had grown up, and had done in a dozen years of work the favorite garden of the French – title won in 2013 following the A show of France 2. The “Gardens of Saint-Adrien” are open to the public and quickly become a tourist attraction that brings a lot of money to the Malgouyres family. Of money not always declared: the couple begins to piling up their money that they conceal everywhere on the property in jars or cans containing hundreds of thousands of euros, in chests or on accounts open in Luxembourg for nearly 1 million euros. In all, their fortune rises nearly 1.5 million euros, which must be added the domain, estimated at 3 million euros. It is this money, hidden in the property, that the burglars were supposed to recover.