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Gabriel Fortin’s trial continues on Monday, June 19. He had been appearing for a week at the Assize Court of Valence, in the Drôme. On Monday, a survivor took the stand to share his experience.
Bertrand Meichel came out exhausted on Monday, June 19, after a hearing he had been waiting for a long time. In 2006, this director of human resources proceeded to the dismissal of Gabriel Fortin, accused of being the author of three assassinations, and of an assassination attempt. He returned to this evening, 15 years after the dismissal. “I see a pizza delivery man at my door with a box. He asks me if I am Bertrand Meichel. The shot goes through the box”, he says. A fight ensued, and the aggressor, made up, fled.
The accused remained impassive
Bertrand Meichel was the second target of the alleged killer. He also mentioned a brilliant defendant, to whom he had to explain at length his professional shortcomings. “Unmanageable, a strong character, incapable of teamwork… That’s what everyone said of Mr. Fortin”he added. “We still have no beginning of an explanation on the fact of killing three women, by doing justice to oneself”, he laments. In their questions, Gabriel Fortin’s lawyers suggestt, them, a form of brutality in the dismissal procedure. In the box, the accused was attentive, but remained impassive.