Sentence confirmed. A 29-year-old man accused of a double parricide committed in 2016 in the Basque Country was sentenced on Saturday to 30 years of criminal imprisonment by the Landes Assize Court of Appeal and his Kazakh ex-girlfriend, accused of complicity, has , she was finally acquitted.
The 29-year-old Kazakh had appealed. Since the start of this case with twists and turns, marked by a dismissal of the trial on four occasions, she has always denied her involvement in the murder with revolver shots of the parents of Kévin Rouxel, on February 20, 2016 in the Basque village of La Bastide- Clairence (Pyrenees-Atlantiques). In Mont-de-Marsan, Kévin Rouxel saw the sentence imposed on him at first instance confirmed in November 2020 in Pau, when the Assize Court of Pyrénées-Atlantiques sentenced his co-accused Sofiya Bodnarchuk to 20 years in prison. imprisonment for complicity.
Multiple versions of the drama
On the evening of the tragedy, the whole family, including the couple’s two-year-old child and Kevin’s older brother, Yann, was then gathered for a birthday meal. Diagnosed with Asperger’s autism during the procedure, Yann Rouxel had been found in a state of shock by the gendarmes while the lifeless bodies of the parents lay in the house.
On Friday, the Advocate General had endeavored to demonstrate the complicity of Sofiya Bodnarchuk in the elaboration and the realization of a “criminal act” intended to recover “a jackpot” estimated by the couple at “1.5 million euros. euros”. He had requested 20 years of imprisonment against her, and 30 against Kévin Rouxel.
Initially, the couple had accused the father, Pascal Rouxel, of being at the origin of the tragedy, then had designated Yann, imprisoned for a month before being exonerated. Kévin Rouxel then claimed to have acted alone and then accused his companion of complicity. The couple, who had met on the internet, had cracked in the middle of a hearing during their first trial in December 2018, which was adjourned.