2023-11-16 08:40:00
Vanessa Samain, general counsel, requested very heavy sentences against Anneliese Audain and Didier Bauwens, guilty of having cowardly murdered Luis Gonzalez Rojas in Bois d’Haine, the night of February 16 to 17, 2020.
“Luis Gonzalez lived thirty-five years, he was not able to accompany his very ill father until the end of his life, he was killed like a dog. He felt each of the nine shots in his body, thrown like trash in the back of his van, with his jacket over his head. We cannot forget it. No one deserves to die in such a way,” declared the magistrate at the start of her indictment.
The attorney general asked the jurors not to forget the pain of the civil parties, of Luis’ mother, of his father who demanded justice in a video before dying, of his ex-wife, of his son who must build a life without his father, murdered by his stepmother.
Cruelty, cynicism
The prosecution sees no mitigating circumstances in the personality of the assassins, who disputed the facts to the end, “who showed cynicism, cruelty”. Anneliese Audain siphoned off Luis’s bank account, continuing to send him messages of love after his death.
“For four years, they only thought of themselves, of saving their skin, even if it meant telling the most improbable stories of each other.”
Vanessa Samain adds that the two assassins mocked justice, refusing to explain themselves, always united during this investigation. “Didier Bauwens even said that he felt good in prison, already thinking about the compensation he was going to claim for unjustified detention.”
The experience of the assassins
For the attorney general, the experience of the assassins is not a mitigating circumstance, they had a life choice. Didier Bauwens has a criminal record. Thirty-four years after being rehabilitated by the courts, he committed a crime. “It’s very worrying, it means that delinquency was still rooted in him,” relates the general advocate. Didier Bauwens exhibits antisocial traits, experts say
Anneliese Audain was unknown to the justice system. However, the public prosecutor does not consider her to be a white goose. So, she tried to defraud an insurance company when her father died.
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