In the suburban district of “Petit Chantilly” in Orvault, the Troadec family has lived at 24 rue d’Auteuil for twenty years. A discreet family who lives almost withdrawn according to the neighbors. It is also a family which suffers from degraded relations with the “branch” Troadec . For over two years, grandmother Renée has cut ties with her son Pascal, his wife Brigitte and their two children Sébastien and Charlotte. The last meetings have degenerated.
The retiree suspects Pascal of having stolen a treasure – ingots and gold coins dating from the Second World War – after the death of her husband and having robbed her daughter Lydie, partner of Hubert Caouissin. Their two cars, Audi and BMW, as well as their weekends in Rome or Vendée would illustrate their change of lifestyle.
Discreet and distant people according to the neighbors
Originally from Finistère, Pascal and Brigitte Troadec, 49, got married in 1993. The couple is fusional. She is a tax officer. They lived in the Paris region for a few years then moved to Loire-Atlantique where she was transferred to Blain, then to Nantes. Very mother hen, the civil servant works part time and takes care of her two children a lot. Electrician, Pascal is employed in a company of Orvault. He leads a very balanced life and is nicknamed “the beauf” by some of his neighbors because he systematically inspects his car when he comes home from work. He can’t stand noise.
The Troadecs exchange very little with their neighbors who call them “bears” or even “living dead” as François Rousseaux relates in his book “Pour tout l’or du monde”. Parents and children alike receive almost no one and lead a simple life, without artifice.
Sébastien, the son, initially suspected
After the disappearance of the family, some media raise suspicions about the 21-year-old son Sébastien. A second-year BTS student in “digital systems” in Vendée, in Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre, he spends all his time on his computer or on his game console and is destined for cybersecurity. Geek, he exposes himself a lot on the networks and in particular complained about his father, his loneliness. The hypothesis of a family crime of which he would be the author emerges, his car having moreover disappeared. But it is finally found a few days after the tragedy, it was used by Hubert Caouissin to transport the four corpses. The young man is fairly quickly exonerated.
The youngest Troadec, Charlotte, aged 18, is a student in the first year of the BTS “services and benefits of the health and social sector” in Fontenay-le-Comte, Vendée. Studious pupil, she enjoys her first year away from the family home. Her mother joins her every Wednesday. At the time of the disappearance, she had just passed an interview for an internship.
The trial in this case is being held from June 22 to July 9 before the Loire-Atlantique Assize Court in Nantes. Hubert Caouissin, who confessed, is tried for murder preceded, accompanied or followed by another crime and attacking the integrity of corpses, he risks life imprisonment. Lydie Troadec is being prosecuted for concealing a corpse and modifying the evidence of a crime.
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