Last Thursday, June 20, the investigative chamber of the Basse-Terre Court of Appeal lifted the indictment of Nadine Turquin, the only suspect in the murder of her husband who had hit the headlines in 2017 According to Le Parisien, who revealed this decision last Friday, the charges had just been dropped against the veterinarian's wife, because justice considers that his alibi is well founded.
Nadine Turquin was indicted on April 28, 2017, for the assassination of her husband Jean-Louis Turquin, who was shot in the back at their home in Mont Vernon 2, on the night of January 6 to 7, 2017. Against the opinion of the prosecution, the Basse-Terre investigative chamber dismissed the charges against Nadine Turquin, which is, for his lawyer Me Olivier Morice, "a very important victory". The latter specifies that this decision demonstrates "the weakness of the accusation".
The night of January 6 to 7, the veterinarian's wife Jean-Louis Turquin had celebrated his birthday with friends in a restaurant, and said he had discovered, on his return, the lifeless body of her husband. In what appeared to be a robbery that had gone wrong, several rooms had been searched and valuables had disappeared. During the investigation, Nadine Turquin had become the main suspect, especially since bullet powder residues had been found on her hands. Despite her protests of innocence, she was charged and imprisoned four months after the murder. She will remain in pre-trial detention for two months, before leaving with an electronic bracelet.
During an expert examination, the third, carried out in February 2019, the report recalls that the suspect indicated that she had repeatedly touched her husband's body as well as objects from the crime scene. According to experts, it is impossible to decide between the prosecution's thesis, according to which Nadine Turquin shot or was present, and that of the defense, which suggests contamination. The investigating chamber insisted on the importance of the alibi provided by the suspect, and the confirmation of three people who always assured that she had never left the restaurant that evening.
At present, Nadine Turquin is an assisted witness and is no longer subject to any judicial control. As a result, the investigation into the veterinarian's murder must be resumed, and if an unknown male DNA was collected at the crime scene, it did not allow any identification._RM
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