Wojciech Janowski after his police hearing on June 27, 2014 in Nice – Valery Hache AFP
- Several people are on appeal in Aix-en-Provence for the assassination of the billionaire Hélène Pastor and her driver, in May 2016 in Nice.
- The ex-sports coach of the businesswoman’s son-in-law reportedly paid performers for this sum.
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The organizer of the double assassination delivered details on Tuesday at the appeal trial.
Monegasque billionaire Hélène Pastor was killed, with his driver, on the order of his own son-in-law, for 140,000 euros, assured Pascal Dauriac. “I participated, I was an actor, I lost my footing,” dropped the ex-sports coach of Wojciech Janowski before the juries of the Court of Assize Appeal of Aix-en-Provence .
At first instance, in September 2018, Pascal Dauriac was sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment for aiding and abetting murder. On Tuesday, he reiterated his accusations against Wojciech Janowski. Hélène Pastor, 77, and her driver Mohamed Darwich, 63, were fatally injured on May 6, 2014 when they were driving out of a hospital in Nice where the Monegasque had visited her son Gildo.
“Find someone to kill the old woman”
The son-in-law “had given a deadline” before Gildo’s return to Monaco “because it suited him” for the double crime to take place in France, said Pascal Dauriac. He tried to explain how, in the service for 13 years of Wojciech Janowski and his partner Sylvia, the daughter of Hélène Pastor, he had gradually let himself “stuck”, until he did not react when his employer asked him to “find someone to kill the old woman.”
“I was under constant pressure, I was in a vice,” he tries to explain. I passed on the orders, the information. After the gifts, including travel, Wojciech Janowski gave him envelopes of cash to distribute to the performers: 140,000 euros to be shared, a deposit of 15,000 and then three other envelopes to be given in installments.
“I was vampirized”
“Didn’t you have the reflex to flee, to throw the envelopes in his face? “Questions Gildo’s lawyer, Gérard Baudoux. “This is what I should have done, I was vampirized,” replied Pascal Dauriac. He had pocketed the money and found the killer, Said Ahmed and the watchman Al Hair Hamadi, sentenced to life imprisonment at first instance.
Wojciech Janowski was convicted of being the sponsor at first instance and was also sentenced to life imprisonment. “I am not the sponsor, I am innocent,” he said at the start of the appeal trial, scheduled for March 27.
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