Accused of complicity, the wife of the alleged shooter is indicted and imprisoned, suspected of having helped her husband revenge, in October 2020. The prosecution asked for the couple’s referral to the assizes, for violence with weapon to weapon Fire, followed by permanent infirmity.
by Richard Schittly (Lyon, correspondent)
On the day of the facts, on October 31, 2020, in Lyon, the attack on the Greek Orthodox priest, seriously injured by an unknown shooter, let feared a terrorist replica, in the aftermath of the Nice attack. The case finally untied in an unusual intimate register. In its final indictment, rendered in early November, the prosecution requests the return to the assizes of Giorgi P., 42, for “violence with firearm, followed by permanent infirmity”, but also that of Lela, 37, his wife, for “complicity”. To the sentimental, sexual and moral springs, who fueled the anger of a deceived husband, suspected of having wanted to take revenge on the lover, is added the supposed role of his wife, accused of having helped him in his business Criminal.
The latter was indicted and imprisoned in July. The two children of the couple were placed. The twist intervened at the end of the judicial investigation led by judge Nicolas Chareyre. Telephone expertise has made it possible to decipher a Russian -speaking application, revealing several exchanges between the husband and his wife, in the midst of the marital crisis, because of the connection that had held, for a month, Lela and Nikolaos Kakavelakis, Orthodox priest, in post to Lyon since 2008.
Quickly appointed by the victim, Giorgi P. admits to the investigators that he had acted by revenge – he was indicted and imprisoned in November 2020. He stretched out, by sounding at the church door. He held a white pocket, revealing the delivery of a letter. He pulled a first volley of 12 -caliber -caliber lead, when the prelate tried to flee when he saw the sawn gun shot on him, then a second when he twisted in earth pain. According to the husband, his anger was increased tenfold by the moral transgression of deception. “It’s like sleeping with his father. It’s like incest, it’s the same,” he said to the judge. On indication of the husband, the investigators found the weapon in the Saône.
Giorgi P. clears his wife, who would not have even seen that he was preparing cartridges on the kitchen table, the day before the facts. But their telephone exchanges show another face of the wife. On the day of the crime, she sent a message to the priest, inquiring about her schedule, then she spoke ten minutes with her husband, at 1:13 p.m.
For the accusation, the wife spontaneously provided many indications for the habits of the future victim “. Clearly, she would have remote -controlled her husband to punish her lover. She even seems to encourage her in the previous days: “Are you afraid or what?”, “Not going home as long as you did not beat him.” According to the parquet floor, “she had made sure to stir up your hatred “.
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