Sentenced to life imprisonment at first instance, Gabriel Fortin, nicknamed the “HRD killer”, must be tried on appeal in mid-May 2024 in Grenoble, AFP learned on Wednesday from a civil party lawyer.
The hearing must be held before the Grenoble Court of Appeal from May 13 to 28, 2024, indicated Me Denis Dreyfus, counsel for the relatives of Patricia Pasquion, Pôle emploi executive killed at her workplace in Valence, confirming information from Dauphiné Libéré.
“Sentenced by the Assize Court to life imprisonment”
In June 2023, Gabriel Fortin was sentenced by the Drôme Assize Court to life imprisonment for three murders and one attempted murder, targeting, with the exception of one victim, people linked to two dismissals that occurred in 2006 and 2009. He appealed less than 24 hours after the verdict.
To justify his appeal, Gabriel Fortin denounced a lack, according to him, of “investigations into the financial links between the companies which dismissed him and the lawyers who refused to defend him” before the industrial tribunal during his dismissals. .
“The HR Killer”
The prison sentence of the man who was nicknamed the “HRD killer” by the press was accompanied by a security period of 22 years. The court having recognized an alteration of its discernment at the time of the facts, without reducing the penalty incurred.
Denouncing the “cruelty” and monstrosity” of Mr. Fortin, Me Denis Dreyfus stressed that “going through a second trial will be difficult for the families” of the victims.
Gabriel Fortin, a 48-year-old unemployed engineer, was found guilty at first instance of having murdered Estelle Luce on January 26, 2021 in Haut-Rhin, and attempted to murder Bertrand Meichel at his home, about forty kilometers away. .
He was also convicted of the assassination at their workplace, two days later, of Patricia Pasquion, an employee of the Pôle emploi agency where Fortin was registered until 2013 and, less than thirty minutes later, by Géraldine Caclin.
He was arrested following the assassination of this human resources director.
2023-10-25 14:28:29
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