Overview
- The assize trial in La Roche-sur-Yon, which opened Wednesday, is scheduled to run through Friday with both defendants charged with poisoning and attempted murder.
- The victim, Enrique B., is a civil party in court and described months of strange symptoms before he learned of the alleged attempts.
- Investigators say the pair admitted three tries using crushed alprazolam in coffee, aconite in chili, and castor beans in olives and tobacco, and the daughter also admitted sawing his car’s brake lines.
- The case grew from a September 2023 complaint after a domestic dispute, when the victim gave gendarmes audio recordings that captured admissions later echoed in interviews and in court.
- Coverage notes the women said TV series gave them ideas for poisons, while Sud Ouest also relays the victim’s claim of a property dispute and wider domestic conflict as possible motives.