Accused in 2019 of a murder occurring eleven years ago, the former ambulance was acquitted by the principal charge, but sentenced to two years, already carried out in pre-trial detention, for a flight on the corpse of the victim , POSTIER in Ain.
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Accused of the bloody murder of a position in 2008 in Montreal-la-Cluse, Mamadou Diallo was acquitted on Monday by the Assize Court of Ain “for the benefit of doubt”. He said he was “relieved” to see his innocence recognized. A little earlier in the day, the Advocate General Eric Mazaud, however, claimed a thirty-year sentence of the accused against the 32-year-old, confounded by his DNA nearly ten years after the facts, while the investigation remained fixed on the former actor Gérald Thomassin.
But after almost five hours of deliberate, he was acquitted by the leader of murder. The former ambulance was sentenced to two years of imprisonment – sentenced by his remand – for the flight of a ticket bank that he recognizes having committed when he visited the scene of the crime , before, according to him, to flee after discovering the corpse of the victim.
At the verdict statement, Mamadou Diallo pushed a sigh of relief, before kissing the hands of his lawyer sylvie Noahovich. The latter then greeted in front of journalists “a great victory for justice” and paid tribute to the “courage” of the jurors. At the address of the civil parties, heads down, the president of the Assize Court has soberly declared: “It is the end of a judicial episode, it is the end of the first instance”. The civil parties are “K.O. Standing” at the end of this trial, declared their lawyer me Séverine Dégourg. “We can not let that impunish, it’s difficult for them,” she continued.
Mamadou Diallo came out of prison shortly before 01 hours in the morning Tuesday, squeezing his loved ones and his lawyer, who has multiplied the appeals in front of the door of the Penitentiary Center of Bourg-en-Bresse to allow his client to Find freedom without waiting for the next day. The young man, moved, then expressed his “relief” in front of his “relief” as well as his “sentence for the victim’s family”.
“Lies up to the absurd”
The body of Catherine Burgod, 41, was discovered on December 19, 2008 at 09:05 in the back-shop of the small post of Montreal-la-Cluse, bathing in a pond of blood. Twenty-eight knife shots were raised on the body of this mother of two children, five months pregnant. The crapper trail was quickly followed by the investigators, a sum valued at 2,490 euros having been stolen. But the crime weapon remained not found and no evidence, especially for the crucial 29 minutes separating the last sms from the victim and the discovery of his body, allowed to advance the investigation.
It had first oriented on the track of Gérald Thomassin, ex-hope of the French cinema became marginal, which then resided in front of this post and whose behavior after the murder had intrigued the investigators. He disappeared in 2019, before enjoying a non-place. During the six days of debate, the defense tried to instill in doubt again around the track leading to Jacques Doillon’s former “small criminal”. “I am convinced that it is him the culprit,” launched Monday at the beginning of ME NOHAHOVITCH plead.
For the general lawyer, this strategy was a “scarecrow”. “I do not believe in the thesis of the profiter’s viewer (…) And if we are not spectator, that’s the actor of the scene,” he said in his indictment at the place of The accused, of which he pointed to “lies until absurd”.
En 2017, l’affaire avait rebondi lorsqu’une correspondance avait été établie entre l’ADN prélevé sur un monnayeur et un sac trouvé près du corps de Catherine Burgod, et celui de Mamadou Diallo. Au moment des faits, il effectuait un stage près de Montréal-la-Cluse. “I panicked, I did not think, going out I took a pack of tickets, I came out” but “I’m not a murderer,” said the bar that was at the ‘époque un lycéen de 19 ans, invoquant le ” traumatisme ” pour expliquer les variations dans ses déclarations.