After almost three years since the killings of Monaco heiress Helene Pastor and her aide, Mohamed Darwich, a number of suspects are due to appear before the Assize Court of the Bouches-du-Rhone.
The nine men and one women are believed to include the former Polish honorary consul to Monaco, Wojciech Janowski, who was arrested six weeks after the ambush on May 6, 2014, outside a Nice hospital where Mrs Pastor, 77, had been visiting her son, recovering from a severe stroke. Mr Janowski had been living with Sylvia, the daughter of Helene, for the previous 28 years and relations between Sylvia’s mother and her own partner was at daggers drawn.
Investigators believe that Mr Janowski had money problems, despite a monthly stipend paid to Sylvia of €500,000. He was involved in dubious investments in his native Poland and under pressure to repay loans. In Monaco he upheld the image of a great philanthropist and set up, with others, Monaco Against Autism and the Monaco chapter of the Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Another main suspect is Pascal Dauriac, Mr Janowski’s fitness trainer, who prosecutors are expected to say made contacts, through his unwitting girlfriend, with underworld elements in the Marseille underworld.
According to the police hypothesis, it was two of these small-time criminals who were the triggermen in the double murder. (Feature image: Blogtrepreneur)
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