The trial of Mamadou Diallo, 32, accustomed to assassinating Catherine Burgod, in 2008, opened Monday, March 28th. The actor Gérald Thomassin, long suspected in this case, today laid off, benefited from a non-place in 2020.
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Blood in large red puddle on white floor. Still blood on the clear faience of the sink. And blood on the woman on the ground, so much blood that his face took the color. It looks like a disarticulated puppet, “as if it had been thrown”. At the witnesses, Claude Boissard, rescuer and technician in the industry, seems to live again this morning from December 2008 to the Montreal-La-Cluse (Ain) post office. “There was such a violence in the scene that I have declined. I said: Do not touch anything, it’s a crime.” At the foundation of Bourg-en-Bresse, the murder of Catherine Burgod, the Postière , is finally tried thirteen years after the facts.
“Case Mamadou Diallo …”, begins the president, Marie Salord, at the opening of the trial Monday, March 28th. The announcement causes an imperceptible floating. The file has been called for so long called the “Gérald Thomassin” affair that one wonders for a moment if we did not deceive a room. It is in this between, precisely, that the hearing will play all this week. Thomassin and Diallo do not know each other, never seen, not the same age, not the same life. On the contrary, all the opposition, until the caricature: the first is a shattered actor, the other a paramedic without history. Both, however, have been accused of killing Catherine Burgod of 28 knife strokes for 2,500 euros. And both deny.
Some magistrates had considered a time to make them appear side by side for the same murder, confiding the jurors the hallucinating role of designating their favorite assassin. But symmetry ended up breaking. In 2020, Thomassin-l’Obscur, with his ideal guilty head, benefited from a non-place while Diallo-Le Solar, the country’s cherished child, finds himself in the box today.
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It was at Thomassin that the investigation began, one hour barely after the discovery of the crime, December 19, 2008 around 10:10 am in the village, his door is the first where the gendarmes chose to hit . Why him ? “It’s a drug addict, known for his suicide attempts. We immediately thought of him,” says an investigator. Thomassin has the talent to attract the light, that of the dramas especially. Born in 1974, high by public assistance, he was cast at 16 years in a home to turn with Jacques Doillon. The Caesar of the best male hope crowns his first role, about twenty feature films aligns with his CV. For any other, we would talk about pretty career. Not for him. Thomassin kept a foot in the stream, the other on the red carpet.
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