The prosecutor’s office appealed a decision that was to lead to the release of 82-year-old Maurice Agnelet. The man was convicted in 2014 of the murder of Agnès Le Roux, a wealthy heiress of the Nice casino.
“We consider that early release for medical reason is not justified,” said Amélie Cladière, public prosecutor of Caen. She specifies that the appeal is suspensive.
“Physical and mental disorders”
Sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for the murder of Agnès Le Roux, Maurice Agnelet had obtained on September 8 from the Caen court of application of sentences a suspension of sentence for medical reasons.
“When the state of health (of a prisoner) becomes incompatible with detention, the sentence is suspended: this is the meaning of the decision taken by the court for the application of sentences”, explained his lawyer Katia Gabriel, mid-September.
No release date had yet been set.
According to his lawyer, Maurice Agnelet, who is incarcerated in Caen prison, suffers from physical and mental disorders. “He has a relatively passive attitude towards events,” she said.
Lawyer and lover of Agnès Le Roux
Agnès Le Roux, heir to the Palais de la Méditerranée casino in Nice, had disappeared in 1977, in the context of the “casino war” in Nice.
After 30 years of procrastination and twists and turns, Maurice Agnelet, lawyer, former lover of Agnès Le Roux and close to Jean-Dominique Fratoni, boss of a competing casino, had been tried, then codnamed at the end of a third trial .
This criminal case media was the subject of a film directed by André Téchiné in 2014, “The man we loved too much”, with Guillaume Canet, Catherine Deneuve and Adèle Haenel.
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