Catherine Burgod Trial: Mamadou Diallo’s “suffering”

Judged for the murder of Montreal-la-Cluse in 2008, the man again claimed his innocence, Friday at the trial.

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That day, chance has round cheeks, long curved eyelash and hair tail-tailed: Anaïs, social worker, lodges a complaint at the police station Lons-le-Saulnier for a stupid deal credit card. A boy, met on Tinder, is divided into his siena. He bought a bricoles, she tried a conciliation. Nothing did it. Convened, he protests: the young woman would be jealous, a revenge. In short, not the kind of file to finish at the foundation. “As usual for this type of offense”, notes the report, the boy’s DNA is nevertheless taken.

We are in September 2017. A year later, the national file of genetic fingerprints transmits its result: the sample has matched in a survey by a decade, the crime of La Poste in Montreal-la-Cuse (Ain ) Until then, the name of the boy had never appeared among the 4,000 ratings of the file: His name is Mamadou Diallo, 32, born in the neighboring village. Since March 29, he appears in Bourg-en-Bresse for killing Catherine Burgod, Postius, twenty-eight knife shots. He denies. At the fifth day of the hearing was the examination of the facts, all the more expected that Diallo had remained behind. In fact, it is at the metamorphosis of the accused that the Court attended.

His mother, first, begins by getting forward to the bar. Venus of Guinea, the parents were workers; The elder of boys became commercial in the Paris region, Benjamine follows a master’s degree in the Sorbonne. “All my children left. Mamadou, he stayed,” said the mother. She never learned to read, nor driving. He is ambulasenger, he plays football, a child of the country. He likes to repeat it. “At home, it’s the countryside, continues the mother. Wherever I go, Mamadou drives me. It’s my half to me.”

In front of the investigators, she first challenged that he accompanied her in December 2008 at Montréal-La-Cluse. Mamadou, on the other hand, remembers well because of the employee, Catherine Burgod, who had been so kind. “Enjoy it,” she said, “I’m going soon maternity leave.”

“Why do not you understand?”

The Prosecutor is asking: “Do you recognize having lied to protect your son?”

The mother: “I do not know why I said that. My head, she was not there.”

This same month of December 2008, the son returned alone to the post office. “I’m not going to play cat and mouse with you,” he says in custody. This second time, it’s when I saw the body of this woman. ”

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