In the aftermath of the macabre discovery of two women who have been dead for several weeks, there are many questions. Comment Christian and his wife Cécile were able to live with the body of Madeleine, 91 years old, on the first floor of this large house, located in Saint-Jory, a town in the north of the Haute-Garonne department? Then when Cécile died in her turn, at the age of 66, why did Christian not give the alert? Without a phone call from Madeleine’s brother to the municipal police, because he was worried about not hearing from his sister, the bodies could have been discovered much later.

When the gendarmes took him out of his house this Thursday, December 23 around 6 p.m., Christian, a man with a shaggy appearance, was in his pajamas. With that long tousled white hair, he looked twenty years older, couldn’t walk, let alone get into the police vehicle.

These interviews with psychiatrists began Thursday evening confirmed his state of fragility. This 63-year-old magnetizer didn’t really give an explanation. He juggles between the rational and the delirious. It seems that this man, very famous for his gifts, is persuaded to be a messenger of God. With the Covid pandemic, he would have, according to several witnesses, made apocalyptic remarks. “Cecile and announced to him that the end of the world was very near”, assures a witness. On the spot this Thursday evening, the investigators of the community of brigades of the gendarmerie of Saint-Jory and those of the research brigade of Toulouse Saint-Michel also found that the couple kept kilos of food in a corner of the House. A reserve likely to live for several weeks without seeing the light of day.

His wife was malnourished

In recent months, this former piano tuner, his mother and his wife have created themselves very discreet. The neighbors thought that Madeleine had been placed in a retirement home. The truth would be much more murky. According to one of the most probable hypotheses, Christian would have discovered the death of his mother between the months of September and that of October. This visually impaired person would then have locked the door of his apartment.

During this period, his wife Cécile also seemed to be in distress. Those who have met her that she had lost tens of pounds in a short time. Had she stopped eating? If so, what role did Christian play? This sixty-year-old, visibly aware that his mother had been dead for months, assures that he did not discover the death of his company until Thursday morning.

When the municipal police entered, he immediately said he might have some trouble with the gendarmes. A confession ? The investigation will have to determine it. The two bodies found do not present any apparent injuries but the trail of poisoning is not totally excluded. We will have to wait for the results of the autopsy, normally this Monday, to find out more. In the meantime, Christian should again be auditioned by the military.

A client of the magnetiser testifies: “He had changed, convinced that the end of the world was near”

Alain, a trader in Saint-Jory, has trouble understanding what happened. Suffering from multiple back pain, he was a client of the magnetiser Christian who, he says, “had become a friend over time as well”. Even though he hadn’t been there for a year, he remembers this “very nice man, attentive to listening with whom we talked about everything. He was a beautiful person who liked to do good. He did sessions in his own office; his wife, Cécile, did the same in his. He received us well in a waiting room. even brought him animals where he went on site to bring them He didn’t ask for anything, we told him the amount we wanted, ten euros, twenty euros …. Sometimes, some did not pay him or gave something chosen in exchange. meat or whatever else he chooses, food anyway because he obviously liked to eat.

The shopkeeper remembers without any problem these moments spent in “this house which received a lot of people. To the point that there had been car parking problems, there were many cars on the side of the road”, he says. But for Alain, “things had changed lately”. And to explain: “Christian hardly ever went out into town with his wife, who came to the market alone. Then she also really changed over the months. She was a woman who was doing well but who, at some point, had She was very thin. She was skeletal! She had cut her hair, we did not recognize her. She no longer came to see me either when we were discussing before, I never really knew why “.

The trader also admits to having heard the magnetizer evoke “the end of the world”. “He had been talking about this since the covid but also before. We don’t know what went on in his head then. I let him say because he was treating very well, which mattered to me the most. This case saddens me, c it is appalling to end your life like this … “.