Janowski’s lawyers plead acquittal – Pages Monaco
On Wednesday November 10, the lawyers of Wojciech Janowski, 72 years old and former son-in-law of Monegasque billionaire Hélène Pastor, pleaded acquittal for this appeal trial. Me Jean-Jacques Campana and Me José Lapina addressed themselves to the Bouches-du-Rhône Court of Appeal in these words: “You have no material elements”.
And basically, “what’s wrong with you? No material elements but the accusations of the silent one who sleeps and sleeps again ”, even got carried away Me Jean-Jacques Campana. The “silent” Pascal Dauriac, ex-sports trainer of Janowski with whom he was very close, became his main accuser.
Three-week trial epilogue
For three weeks, Pascal Dauriac kept his eyes closed most of the time in the box of the accused. He is suspected of having organized the fatal ambush of May 2014. It was while the billionaire was visiting his son Gildo, who had suffered a stroke and was hospitalized in Saint-Roch, in Nice, that his vehicle was attack.
Pascal Dauriac has already been sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2018, at first instance. He “overwhelms other people, met in question” but he “overwhelms himself” also, it is a “truth of self-incrimination”, insisted his lawyer, Me Jean-Robert Phung.
Wojciech Janowski saw the Advocate General request for his part, Tuesday, November 9, life imprisonment in the face of “overwhelming evidence”. Wojciech Janowski is still suspected of having ordered the assassinations of his stepmother Hélène Pastor as well as of his Egyptian butler. The sentence must fall tomorrow, Friday, November 12, at the end of the deliberations of the Assize Court of Appeal of Bouches-du-Rhône, in Aix-en-Provence.
Read the original article on https://francetvinfo.fr
Illustration: Wojciech Janowski during his trial at first instance in September 2018. • © BENOIT PEYRUCQ / AFP