Illustration of the Assises d’Aix-en-Provence – P. Magnien / 20 Minutes
The jurors of appeal of Bouches-du-Rhône confirmed the verdict taken by the jurors of Nice three and a half years ago. According to information from
Provence, Michel Lambin, 70, nicknamed “the shepherd of Caussols” and the Cannes robber Émile Fornasari, 59, are sentenced to life imprisonment with twenty-two years of security for the assassination of Robert Ludi, a guard school in Antibes.
The victim, 33 years old at the time of the events, was shot dead in his car with two bullets in the head on December 6, 2002. A crime which was ordered by the former Riviera robber, Émile Fornasari, jealous of see the municipal employee close to his wife and who thus instructed Michel Lambin to execute him.
Lambin charged with two other murders
Just before the start of this trial in Aix-en-Provence, Michel Lambin had learned that he would return to the Assize Court of the Alpes-Maritimes for the murder of two robbers on the run. Farid Errajdi, 22, and Jean-Félix Leca, 36, were taken in by the shepherd in May 2001 at the Bayou farm, on the Caussols plateau, and never reappeared.
In 2011, Michel Lambin was already sentenced to eighteen years of imprisonment for a first assassination in the department, that of Jean-Yves Guerrée, a convict.