Le vrai visage de Nathalie Le Scrill, dite "l'étrangleuse" | Crime France

The young woman will therefore resume her story of the evening of January 5, 1994. And here is this time what, according to her, really happened. She comes at 8:15 pm to visit her husband at his request. The discussion at the start takes place without problem. And at one point she says to him: "If I came back to live here, wouldn't that be a good idea? "

And then she gets a categorical refusal, she says: "There is no question about it." It's January 5, 1994, in Chantilly, in the Oise. It's dark night, the streets are deserted. At 23:30, the police receive a phone call. At the other end of the line, Christophe Le Skrill. A professional jockey. The man seems to be panicking.

The story is about a different family, obviously. It's a man who calls, so Christophe, who calls for help. He asks the gendarmes to come help him because he is in trouble in a house scene. The call is not banal. Christophe Le Scrille is said to be threatened by his 27-year-old wife Nathalie. The situation is so critical that the gendarmes decide to intervene.

20 minutes later, the police arrive on the scene. And they are not the only ones on site. Two women, also alerted by Christophe Le Skrill, are there and they look worried. One of them, Céline Cortier, remembers. We arrive at the pavilion, we introduce ourselves to the gendarmes and we go around the pavilion with them.

So together they will go around the house to see if a door, a window, by extraordinary, would be open. But there are no souls who live in this house. The doors are closed, no one answers, but on the other hand the lights are all on. Another person arrives on the premises. It is Patricia Bertiglia, she is Christophe's mother. For some time she lives in this house and tonight she comes home from a dinner.

When the police come to visit the house, they do the floor cleaning, they don't see any disorder, they go upstairs, into the rooms.

And no order either, neither in the bathroom, nor in all the rooms. The house is empty. No trace of Christophe, or his wife Nathalie, or their 18-month-old daughter Maya. They all seem to have disappeared. And curious thing, Christophe's ID papers and his clothes are there. Everything indicates a hasty departure. He has no watch, no wallet, no ID, no coat on him.

It's not Christophe's habit to go out in a jogging, basketball, t-shirt in the middle of January when it's freezing and even less to take his daughter there in such cold weather. Where is the L'Escrille family? Why did Christophe leave home when he had just alerted the police?

It surprises the police officers to see that there was no one following the call, which was about 15 minutes before. But couples are a little particular when they argue. We never know their decision at the moment. So for the police officers, it was weird. But since there was no indication of crime or crime, the couple could have left for another reason.

For the gendarmes, nothing alarming a priori, they decide to leave the place. On the other hand, Céline and her friend have a bad feeling. They decide to stay there and search the surroundings. Two hours pass when a car approaches the pavilion. It is about 2 am, it is Nathalie who reappears with her daughter. Only Christophe, he, is not there. The two friends of Christophe Le Skrill observe what is happening a little off.

She sees Nathalie entrusting little Maya to her mother Patricia Bertiglia, then the young woman leaves alone. A few minutes after Nathalie's departure, we return to Christophe's home to see Mrs. Bertiglia who was about to give birth to the little one and we asked her if everything was going well, if the little one was doing well and if she had news from Christophe.

And at that moment, she told us she had asked her daughter as few questions as possible and that her daughter had just told her that they had argued, that she had taken the girl and that she had left. Three hours after Christophe L'Escrille's phone call to the police, Céline and her friend still have no explanation about the mysterious disappearance of the jockey and she doubts the worst.

The two women spend the night looking for Christophe. Finally, the next day, January 6th, Nathalie Le Scrille goes to the Chantilly police station.

The young woman seems to be dead of worry because her husband has not returned from the night. She explains to the gendarmes that Christophe and she have been separated for several months and confirms that the night before, they had a violent fight. "During her hearing, Nathalie Loscry seemed to be crazy. She declares that she had come to try to reconcile her request with her husband and an altercation followed.

The child started crying. She wanted to go up to comfort her. And at that moment, the dispute breaks out because he tells her: "Listen, you haven't been busy for eight months, you're not going to start now, you have nothing to do here." And he physically prevents her from becoming violent, from approaching the child. Nathalie says she took refuge in their daughter's room. But Christophe would have pursued her. And, unbelievable things, he would have tried to strangle her.

She would have managed to escape him, but rightly so. She got scared, she took her vehicle, when he answered a phone call on the ground floor, and while taking her child. She only regained her home much later. The only image that remains is to see in her rearview mirror, Christophe Le Scritt, who ran after her in jogging and in a t-shirt in the street. This image of her husband chasing his car is therefore the last one that Nathalie has kept in memory.

Since then, the young woman swears not to have had any news of Christophe. Only the gendarmes are perplexed because the story of the young woman does not fit at all with the wiretap given by Christophe Le Skrill the day before the investigators.

So, did Christophe flee after trying to strangle his wife? Or on the contrary, was he physically threatened by her as he said on the phone? We must now find the jockey. His report is sent to all the police. And quickly, fights are organized in the forests of the surroundings.

About twenty soldiers are put in place to block the sector, the residence of Ulysse and the Sinophile teams to try to find the escape route or the escape direction of Christophe Le Scriven. Only, the research gives us nothing. So now we have to search the past of the young man to try to find the key to the nymphs.

The investigators question one by one all the relatives of the missing jockey. Friends, colleagues and family members. All describe a young man without history. During the auditions, everyone considers him as a brave boy, reliable, present, available, always to serve. He's a nice guy, quite erased, who

He's not a leader, he's not a fighter, he's not a guy with a very strong character. He's more of a follower. He's someone who's considerate, who loves family life and who particularly loves his little daughter. Professionally, everything smiles at Christophe Le Skrill. At the time, he was a renowned jockey who, at 24, had already won more than 150 races.

Christophe Le Skrill is about to become the best jockey of his generation. He won a lot of races. 24, the year before his disappearance. And above all, he won the gold medal in Deauville, which is a very, very popular prize. If he falls on the right horse, who can make him win 3 or 4 good races, he is in the top 5 or 6, surely. He never had an enemy.

neither professionally nor in private life because in private life, he is a very calm person. I don't see him as a potential enemy towards Christophe. No enemy, a career in full swing. Christophe Le Skrill is a caring and appreciated family man and a professional. The gendarmes have trouble believing that the young man tried to strangle his wife.

This disappearance is a bit more strange because Christophe Le Scrille had no objective reason to disappear. He had no objective reason to disappear for his entourage. He had his daughter, whom he loved, who he took care of a lot, he had professional commitments. He had never expressed the intention to disappear, to end his life. This disappearance seems completely aberrant.

Especially since one element attracts the attention of investigators and shows that the disappearance of the jockey is not voluntary. The investigators of the police station will study Christophe Le Skrill's bank accounts, the checks, the movements of accounts, the use of bank cards and they will realize that there is no movement, no check issue. Everything suggests that something serious happened to Christophe Le Skrill.

Now, the jockey is no longer the one of the Precipice, but that of the "Fait d'hiver" section of the newspapers. "Mysterious disappearance in La Morlaix in the Oise, where since January 5, the jockey Christophe Le Scri did not give a sign of life." And there is a man who knows him well and who is worried. It's Yann Porzier, Christophe's coach.

I think he was a very good boy, he would have given me some news, he would have given some news to his mother who loves him, so I'm very worried and very pessimistic. The investigation is at its end. So the gendarmes decide to take a closer look at the last person to have seen the missing person: Nathalie Le Scrille, his wife. They are convinced, this is where the key to the mystery is.

Christophe and Nathalie met in June 1990 in the world of horse racing. Both share the same passion for horses. At the time, Christophe was a hockey apprentice, Nathalie was in charge of horse training. Thierry Gillet is Christophe's best friend and he remembers the first time the young man talked to him about Nathalie.

Three months later, they were married.

It happened very quickly, it was dazzling. He was there, he was licking it, I was laughing, he was not going to escape. And he always told me: "Mr. Porzier, it's my strength, it's my strength." Christophe is a joker, I understand. Nathalie respects all that, she is behind him, she helps him, she pushes him, she talks to him, it's a bit of fun.

At this time, the couple does not leave each other. Christophe and Nathalie go out frequently and go to world parties for the greatest joy of the young woman. But investigators will quickly discover that the relatives of the jockey do not always see with a very good eye the fusion relationship of Christophe and Nathalie.

Nathalie influences Christophe a lot on his choices in private life. She distorts him from his friends that he had for a long time. I don't know why, but she manages to clean up around him, by removing his frequent activities, which she doesn't like. Very soon, the passion will be washed away, and this is because of a family event that will change everything.

In July 1992, two years after their meeting, Nathalie gives birth to a little girl named Maya. Christophe is delighted, but the young mother, she, will suddenly change behavior. Indeed, Nathalie is quite bad at this new role of mother in the home. She needs to escape. It is at this moment that her love relationship with Christophe knows its first difficulties. After the birth, Nathalie

is going to be taken by a frenzy of going out. She needs to go out. She gets bored at home. She finds that her husband is too busy, that he takes too much care of his daughter, that he is too at home. And suddenly, barely three months after her birth, she leaves. She goes to the nightclub, she goes out, she comes home at no time.

The plan was that Christophe was the babysitter and that Nathalie went out in a box with who I do not know but especially with boys according to what I could understand. In May 1993,

Nathalie is at the end of the road, she is at the end of this long nervous depression that has been working her since the birth of her daughter Maya and she will try to end her days by cutting her veins. 8 months before Christophe's disappearance, Nathalie Le Scrille is admitted to the Reanimation Service of the Saint Anne Hospital in Paris. She will stay there for 4 days. When she leaves, she decides to separate from her husband and leave her to take care of their 10-month-old daughter.

For the young man, it's a very painful episode. When Nathalie leaves Christophe, Christophe is a little bit, completely, I mean, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little bit, a little

Nathalie Le Skrill leaves the Amorlaix house. She moves to a friend's house, which has a pony club, 10 km from here. In exchange for the jute and the blanket, she gives equitation lessons. Christophe, on his side, always hopes that his wife will come back to him. But a terrible confession will definitely break his couple. One day, while Nathalie went back to Amorlaix to see her daughter, a new quarrel breaks out with Christophe.

And it is at this moment that the young woman makes a revelation to her husband. During a couple dispute, Christophe and Nathalie get on their nerves. They are already separated. And Nathalie, in a moment of intense anger, goes to confess to her that she slept with a certain number of her friends.

But even worse, she will mostly explain to him that the little Maya may not be his child. Christophe is confused, not because she has given birth to many men, but because she announces to him that he may not be the father. So, try to find out if what she told him

and really true and asks me: "Do you know that Nathalie frequents and comes out of the name of people and is shocked by saying: "Are you aware?" " So I confirm to her what I know, I confirm to her: "Yes, she slept with such a person while you were married with ". I know one thing, one day he came to see me in the cellar because

I'm not saying I was very paternal with him, but we had quite warm relationships, outside of work. And one day he told me: "Mr. Porzier, do you think I should do a paternity research on my daughter?" I said: "Listen, do you love your daughter?" He said: "Yes, Mr. Porzier, I love her." I said: "Listen, keep loving her and don't do anything at all." And that's what he did, he listened to me. Christophe will therefore not do paternity research.

However, he decides to start a divorce procedure. He even asks men who had sexual relations with Nathalie to write to him adult certificate in order to obtain custody of his daughter. Nathalie knows it. In case of divorce, she loses everything, a comfortable life and custody of her daughter.

Then, day after day, his behavior will change. And, incredible thing, Christophe will become his suffering pain. Christophe is a beaten man. They will even find a complaint that goes back to September 1993, or four months before his disappearance, where he complains to the police that he was hit by Nathalie with a door handle.

He also has 3 days of ITT, work interruption. The only anecdote I saw was the day he took off his T-shirt and he had bruises on his back like his thumb. So that wasn't a horse he had made. As a jockey, when you change, you totally undress to dress as a jockey. So when he was next to me, undressing, I saw some marks.

They couldn't tell me it was a horse fall in the morning or training. The police ask if this violent woman with her husband couldn't have gone any further until he was disappeared. From then on, Nathalie Le Scrille becomes suspect number one. Even if she doesn't have any evidence or any mobile, investigators decide to question the young woman.

It's now 9 days since Christophe Le Skrill gave birth, when investigators auditioned Nathalie about the night of her husband's disappearance. They want to know more about her time between 23h45, the moment she left the house with her daughter, and 2am, the moment she came back to give birth to her mother. And Nathalie will reveal an element she hadn't mentioned before.

On January 14, during her second audition, Nathalie Hilles-Krill adds that that night, to prove her innocence, she had taken a hitchhiker and she gives him some elements so that we can identify him, so that we can hear him and confirm this version. So the gendarmes will start looking for this hitchhiker and thanks to the elements she provided, they end up finding him, they will hear him and he will confirm. He will confirm two things:

Nathalie's presence that night at the wheel of her car, that's acquired. But he will also confirm that she is with Maya, the little girl. Nathalie Le Skrill would have told the truth. Yet the gendarmes are not entirely convinced. To find out more, investigators will try a poker trick. They will spy on the phone conversations of the young woman.

On January 25, 1994, the gendarmes put Nathalie Le Scriel on telephone listening. Their first observation is that the young woman, who was very worried about the disappearance of her husband in front of them, adopts a very different behavior in the private. - During various contacts that we had with her, she was three quarters of the time in tears and crying in search of her husband. And on the phone, nothing was transpiring on this behavior.

The conversations she could have with the different interlocutors she had, made us think of a happy girl to live, not at all stressed by the disappearance of her husband. So these elements were more than disturbing for us. And that's not all. A few days after the disappearance of her husband, to Christophe's greatest surprise, Nathalie came back to the house as if nothing had happened. If Christophe had come back at that time,

Christophe would not have accepted that Nathalie had to reintegrate the house this way.

Even more surprising, Nathalie is now spreading her story in the media. She accepts many interviews and welcomes the journalists who want to meet her in the family pavilion. And here is what she says about Christophe: "He had the features drawn by anger. I've never seen him in such a state. I saw Christophe who was following me on foot, then he disappeared.

For me, it's a escape. My husband is probably looking for refuge with friends. Only Nathalie screams and baffles. And by force of speech, she will end up trolling. Among the journalists who came to interview Nathalie at the house of the Morlaix, there is Cécile Beaulieu. I went to see her at her house, in the pavilion she occupied with her husband.

She is rather outgoing, rather nice. She wants to talk about the disappearance of her husband, that's for sure. She takes the time to welcome me, she takes me to the kitchen, she makes tea and then she tells me the last night she spent with him before his disappearance. But there is a detail in the story of Nathalie Le Scriel that will bring forth the suspicions of the journalist. So I ask her several times to tell me about this evening because I don't know, there are things that seem not very coherent to me.

And so she tells me again that she locked herself in the kitchen. So I find myself and I notice that the kitchen door has no... has no closing. The wrenches were removed. And so it is absolutely impossible to lock yourself in the kitchen. At that moment, I tell myself that she is lying and that the scene has not at all happened as she tells it. - Watched by the gendarmes, considered a liar by journalists, Nathalie Le Scrille is at the heart of all suspicions.

On February 7, 1994, the case changes. A man presents himself to the Chantilly police station. He has important revelations to make. This man is called Didier Fainaud. He knows Nathalie well because his daughter takes pony courses with her. And here is what he came to tell the investigators:

This witness tells the gendarmes that the day after the disappearance of Christophe, Nathalie Le Scrille, who is one of his friends, asked him to accompany her in the forest of Villers-sous-Saint-Leu. And in this forest, Didier Fesnaud tells that Nathalie Le Scrille has delivered a strange ride. He doesn't get out of the car, she does.

She ran up the path, sinking into the wood. She was absent for about 15 minutes. When she came back, she was covered in dirt, her face was full of blemishes. She said to him: "Come quickly, we're leaving, there are people who want to catch me." The witness said: "I looked around, there was no one, but I executed myself, I went up, she was pale as a linen."

Nathalie Leeskrill then asks him not to tell anyone about this episode. But why did Nathalie Leeskrill come into this forest? This information is crucial for the gendarmes. We've been looking for Christophe for over a month. And suddenly, we have a witness who says that the next day he took his wife to the forest, that she came back full of dirt. It's starting to feel good, in quotation marks.

The gendarmes accompanied by the witness immediately go on site. They frame the area and their worst fears will soon be confirmed. Shortly after their arrival at the Yaudi-le-Bois in Saint-Michel, in the hills of Villers-sur-Saleux, a body is discovered under branches, a string around the neck, a body alone with a jogging stick of a small person, with a weak corpus. Immediately, the approach is made with

the body of Christophe Le Scrille. Called in reinforcement, the scientific teams of the gendarmerie arrive on site and they quickly confirm the identity of the victim and the causes of his death. Christophe Le Scrille was killed by strangulation. No clues on site, but everything suggests that Nathalie Le Scrille is involved in the murder. The next day, investigators place Nathalie Le Scrille in custody.

He decides to question the young woman without telling her about the discovery of her husband's body. That day, Nathalie is rather serene. She reiterated her first two hearings in the same way, saying that they had a fight, she took her child, then she added that she had brought back a hitchhiker. So the hearing was, let's say, a good child. Only very quickly, the tone changes. They're going to put pressure on him.

Basically, they accuse her. They say: "You killed your husband." But they don't give more. And then they quickly understand that they are dealing with someone who has a real character, who doesn't let himself be, who is a real enraged person, and it's going wrong. And then she breaks up, she doesn't want to hear anything anymore, she cuts herself, she retracts herself, she doesn't want to talk anymore.

The gendarmes then decide to explain to Nathalie what Didier Fainaud came to tell them the day after the disappearance of Christophe when he drove her into the forest. There, she started to be a little unstable, asking if it was true, if it was not true, if we had elements or if we did not have them.

And then it has the opposite effect, she becomes crazy, she starts screaming, saying "I don't know him, what is this story? Who are you taking me for? You think I'm the killer?" She becomes completely hysterical, she becomes completely crazy, she starts screaming. Second failure, she really has an incredible character, this woman. Not easy to maneuver.

The gendarmes no longer have a choice. They understand that Nathalie will not admit anything to them. They must cause an electric shock. They tell him: "Well, now that's enough, we stop playing. We found your husband's body. He was at the place where the famous witness, whom you did not want to hear about earlier, took us and where he took you. And that's where we found your husband's body. So you have to stop playing. "

When we told her that the body had been found, she went into a crisis. She must have been held back because she was getting angry. She wasn't in a trance or anything like that. She was getting angry, she must have been held back. She went into a crisis, a bit hysterical. And we had to find everything.

our calm to bring back his. She did not want to believe that we had the body of her husband. She did not want to believe it. At that moment, Nathalie Le Skrill understood that she had lost and she decides to go to the men. The young woman will therefore resume her story of the evening of January 5, 1994. And here is this time what, according to her, really happened.

At 8:15, she comes to visit her husband at his request. The discussion at the beginning takes place without any problems. And at one point, she says to him: "If I came back to live here, wouldn't that be a good idea?" And then she gets a categorical refusal. She says to him: "There is no question about it." But there is no question about it. The child must be laid, start crying.

Nathalie wants to take her in her arms, comfort her. Christophe refuses, he says no, it's been several months, eight months that you're not here, you can't go and take care of yourself now. A first warm-up passes between them and she goes up to the bathroom to cool off. According to Nathalie, Christophe Le Scrille joined her in the bathroom and would have tried to strangle her for the first time with the rope of a bedroom dress.

He went behind me in the bathroom and when I wanted to get out, he hung a string around my neck. He's holding, he's getting out of this belt and at that moment he's going down the stairs because the phone rings. The phone rang, I got out. Christophe took the string and passed it around his neck. Unexplainable gesture. Why would Christophe have passed this belt around his neck?

Nathalie Le Scriel does not specify it, but this detail plays an important role in the continuation of her version of the facts. Christophe joins her in the room, jumps on her, tries to strangle her, the little one starts crying, suddenly he lets go of her, he leaves the room, he has the rope of his comb, the belt of his comb around his neck. Nathalie goes down, runs after him in the staircase,

grabs the ends of the belt and pulls it back violently. Unbalanced, Christophe falls down the stairs. He goes, he tilts, he hits his head on a corner of the sidewalk. He is stunned and, fearing his reaction,

She makes a knot to this belt that is around the neck of her husband. "I don't remember if I was tight or what I did exactly between the moment it fell and the moment I made the knot. Everything goes very fast. I was scared knowing that you would arrive. I decided to run away.

She knows that she must not drag on the scene once she has killed Christophe. She knows that the police will arrive from one minute to the next. So she goes to her daughter in her room, she puts her in the car, then she takes the corpse of her husband, she drags him to the car, she sticks him on the passenger seat, head down, and then she takes her child on her knees and she starts.

Arrived at the Saint-Michel station, Nathalie Le Scrille gets out of the vehicle, leaves her child in this one, then opens the front passenger door and pulls the body of her husband, dragging him along the way. While pulling him, his T-shirt remained in his hands and his sneakers fell. So she hides the body in the foliage and she takes the sneakers back

and the T-shirt. Nathalie L'Eustrelle claims that she then left, got rid of her husband's stuff in a trash can and washed her car to hide her trim. Then she took a young hitchhiker in her car, which she parked a few kilometers away. And two hours later, she came back to her husband's house to put the child to his mother.

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But that's not all.

The judge also wonders about Nathalie's ability to commit this crime as she told it. It is a woman who would be the author of a murder, which is not so common, and the victim is a man. So the question I ask myself, that investigators ask themselves, was she alone at the time of the crime and at the time of the transport of the body, which still represents a non-negligible charge.

But if Nathalie didn't kill her husband alone, who could have helped her? The police know that Nathalie is quite isolated. She has few friends. She has many lovers, but few friends. So for this type of action, someone very close is necessary. It's not the "vague copain" that we met one night in a nightclub, that we call saying "I killed my husband, come help me". They go to the mother. The mother has a concrete alibi. She was at a dinner in the Paris region. We saw her coming.

It doesn't fit. The gendarmes then turn to the father of the young woman, a man whose case is rather charged. He has been condemned several times by the past and at the time, he was even sought after by the justice system and was subject to several arrest sentences. We actually interrogate Father Nathalie Le Scrille in Paris. After hearing him, checking his alibi,

Nothing can be blamed on him. We will take the opportunity to put to execution the arresting hands of the object he was involved in and he will be imprisoned. The father and mother of Nathalie being excused, the thesis of a possible accomplice is for the moment in a deadlock. However, doubts remain. And it is the judicial reconstitution that will definitely dissipate them.

On May 4, 1994, the judge of instructions and the gendarmes went to their former home in La Morlaix with Nathalie Le Scrille. Their goal was to reconstruct Christophe's murder. And against all odds, the day started in a relaxed way. She was willing to go, she was nice, smiling. We even discussed together.

as a movie actor. Nathalie Le Skrill directly put herself in the spotlight, exactly at the same time, the same strength, the same precision. Everything was set by her, without having to tell her: "You did this, you did that." There was no need to take up the script she had declared, because it was the script as she had done it, without any question being asked.

Finally, the key moment of this reconstruction comes. The one where Nathalie has to carry a mannequin of the same size and weight as her husband's, in other words, 158 and 152 kilos, while the young woman, she, is smaller. She makes the first transport between the house and the vehicle which is parked, I would say, 3-4 meters from the entrance.

I'm a little worried, I wonder how it's going to go. And she carries out this transport with disconcerting ease. Without any effort, without any sign of anger or anything, she carried the body, turned it over as she had said in the vehicle, without any disordered movement or people who had difficulties, no difficulty in doing this maneuver.

For the judge of instruction, there is no doubt. Nathalie Le Scriel did not need help. She killed her husband alone and hid her body without any complicity. However, there is still a question. Is murder, as Nathalie said, the consequence of a ninth dispute? Or is it a murder foreseen by an unstable young woman? It is up to the justice to decide.

The auditorium is full.

the day of the opening of the trial of Nathalie Le Scrille. Everyone is shocked. There are horses, there are jockeys, there are Christophe's colleagues, there is Christophe's family, there is Nathalie's family. And then she appeared in the box with a little gray tailor, her hair picked up in the back by a horse's tail. She had lost a lot of weight.

The trial is difficult to accuse her because her behavior plays in her disfavor. And she will try to seduce both the judges, the magistrates and ...

And then it goes wrong, because it doesn't work, it doesn't work. She tries to make us take clothes for lanterns. And it was indeed very complicated because we had a Nathalie who didn't express herself very well, who didn't look natural and suddenly not sincere, or rather giving the impression of being not sincere. And that was obviously catastrophic.

The testimonies follow one another. The portrait of Nathalie Le Scrille is unpleasant, starting with the one of the psychiatrist Roland Coutenceau, who talks about the nature of the relationship between Nathalie and Christophe. She was used to a situation where, when this man loved her, he often did what she wanted. So she had the hand, to say a more neutral word, than dominant. And obviously,

She has so much instability in this couple that this man started to not love her anymore and then he fell in love with another and so obviously she loses her hand and she can't stand it. Nathalie Le Scrille is an impulsive and violent woman. Some witnesses will also do the same.

I remember when I was talking, I crossed the look of Nathalie and I rarely crossed a look like that, of determination. I thought of the look of a eagle. She was determined, she was ... it's even incredible. There was no tenderness, no compassion, no ... apparently.

No remorse in her eyes. Finally, the blow of grace against all expectations is carried by the sister of the accused. Her older sister is particularly virulent with Nathalie, saying that she believes her to be capable of everything, that her sister really presents her as a monster. She paints a portrait, but absolutely demonic. And no one expected that. She really surprised everyone by behaving like that.

Faced with these overwhelming testimonies, Nathalie Le Skrill's defense tries to minimize the facts. For her, it is not a premeditated murder, the accused acted under the influence of anger and lost his cool. It remains to be seen if this will suffice to obtain the clemency of the jurors. On November 23, 1996, after four long hours of deliberation, the verdict falls. It is 3 a.m. 20 years of security shooting,

It's heavy, it's long. Nathalie, when she hears this 20-year-old's pain falling, is obviously crushed and that's normal. And the father got up and insulted the lawyer by saying: "You are happy, you got what you wanted, you will sleep well tonight." Nathalie Le Skrill was immediately incarcerated in Beauvais prison.

Thanks to the game of penalty kicks and because she knew how to prove that she could reinsert herself, the young woman is now free after spending eight years behind bars.