Magali Blandin’s husband, Jérôme Gaillard, committed suicide in his cell in Rennes-Vezin-le-Coquet prison, on the night from Sunday to Monday. He had confessed to having killed his wife.
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Jérôme Gaillard, Magali Blandin’s husband, committed suicide on the night of Sunday October 31 to Monday November 1, in his cell at the Rennes-Vezin-le-Coquet penitentiary center. The 42-year-old specialist educator, mother of four, was found dead buried in a wood in March, a little over a month after her disappearance from Montfort-sur-Meu, near Rennes. Her husband had been indicted and imprisoned since March for this murder, which he had confessed. The couple were going through a divorce.
His suicide “is a huge mess” that prevents “the whole manifestation of the truth”, reacted Monday, November 1 Sylvaine Grévin, the president of the National Federation of victims of feminicides, with France Bleu Armorique. “I am thinking of Magali Blandin’s parents (…) They will no longer have the answers they might have had during the trial.”
According to the Rennes public prosecutor, Philippe Astruc, Magali Blandin’s husband had been placed in the vulnerable detainees’ area and had started a hunger strike: “How today do detainees in fragile situations, who talk about their act, their desire to kill themselves, manage to act while they are in a cell that is in principle secure?”, she asks.
Sylvaine Grévin finally asks “the possibility of having access to a posthumous trial for the civil parties, in the event of the suicide of the perpetrator”. She explains that her association is working on a bill and that this idea has already been discussed with the Ministry of Justice.