“Eléa should never have come across such a guy”
12:30 p.m .: the mother of the accused has just delivered a poignant testimony in which she charges her son: “for me, he is mentally ill. He is a fool and manipulator. He can look at you with his gaze peacefully and tell you anything. The more he advances in age, the more serious it is. He’s no longer my son. Elea should never have run into such a guy. “
11:35 : the expert psychologist who met the accused paints the portrait of a man “on the defensive and of a rather striking coldness”.
He is a man who had a difficult childhood, with regular placements, and who would be in search of emotional landmarks.
It is also a person who undergoes “an old depression” with “a narcissistic flaw and a fear of abandonment”.
The expert reports that the accused threatened to commit suicide if he is convicted. But he also presents “an archaic system of defense, as a child can do, where he is able to mix lies and mythomania to ward off personal suffering”.
10:30 : The Vaucluse Assize Court has just heard from the murderer of a young woman, Eléa Goarnigou, 24, whose body was found buried on the island of La Barthelasse, in Avignon, on January 7, 2020. tomb is just over 100 meters from land rented by Jérémy Richaud, 35 years old. Companion son of the time.
In the box, facing the courtyard, is an individual marked by several years spent in prison and that his relatives as violent, unmanageable and mythomaniac.
This December 9, the accused still denies the crime, when the question is put to him by President Roger Arata, and that the young woman is said to have died because of a poisonous plant.
While the expertises carried out on the victim have the opposite and that there is the trace of a blow given with a sharp weapon in the thorax, near the zone of the heart.
Jérémy Richaud, already convicted at a younger age for gang rape, faces life imprisonment.