# Jacquy Haddouche

Jacquy Haddouche (19 February 1964 – 23 October 2010) was a French serial killer. He was convicted of three murders committed between 1992 and 2002, and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a 22-year lock-in period.

## Biography

Haddouche was born to Algerian parents. His mother was Djouber Azzouz, and his father was Ahmed Haddouche, who was a soldier in the French army during the Algerian war, and in 1962, like many harkis, Ahmed Haddouche was evacuated with his family to France. In Beauvais, Oise, he found a job as a specialized worker at the Lockheed factory, where, after becoming alcoholic and very violent, was dismissed from his job. Jacquy Haddouche was born on 19 February 1964, in a family where he was the third of twelve children. He was educated at George Sand College, and was considered intelligent and sensitive, but also unstable, aggressive, impulsive, intolerant, manipulative and unable to take frustration.
In 1979, the juvenile judge placed him in a guarded education centre in Méru, where he escaped regularly to join the family housing. It is there that at sixteen, he lived through a traumatic scene. Unable to support his wife's divorce proceedings, Ahmed Haddouche committed suicide by shooting himself in the head in front of his son Jacquy. He was splashed by his father's blood and his father's body fell on him. Traumatized, he then left school, sunk into delinquency and became a substance abuser.
Condemned and incarcerated several times, Jacquy Haddouche married in 1988, in Liancourt, at the instigation of his mother, which allowed him to obtain a reduction of his sentence. His ex-wife regretted the eight months that their marriage lasted.

## Early crimes

In 1981, he committed a gang rape with a legionnaire older than him. He was sentenced to five years in prison by the cour d'assises for minors.
In 1986, he was sentenced to eight years in prison for a violent robbery.
In 1993, he was sentenced to six months in prison for burglary.
In 1996, he was sentenced to three months, four months and six months in prison for theft, aggravated theft and counterfeiting.
In 1997, he was sentenced to two years in prison for fraud and aggravated theft.
In 1998, he was sentenced to six years in prison for robbery, his victim surviving poisoning with drugs.

## Facts and investigation

On 30 November 1992, in the early evening, in Beauvais, Haddouche met 45-year-old Gilles Canette, a divorced and depressed French teacher, in an elevator. They talked for a bit, and Canette invited Haddouche to his apartment. Around 7:00 pm, two boys, pupils of Canette, came to talk to him. The teenagers noticed that Haddouche behaved oddly, seemingly inspecting the rooms of the apartment. They left around 8:00 pm. Haddouche spent the evening with Canette, eventually poisoning him with an antidepressant, cyamemazine, and then asphyxiating him. At midnight, the credit card of Gilles Canette was used at a vending machine, which was odd, considering that when Canette wanted money from his account, he would always withdraw it at the bank counter, and he never used his card to the distributor. Early in the morning of 1 December 1992, Haddouche went to see the two teenagers at their home and threatened them to deny seeing him at Canette's place the night before. On 1 December 1992, Canette was discovered naked on his bed by his cleaning lady. Police found a fingerprint of Haddouche on a bottle of strawberry syrup, and he was suspected of the murder. Haddouche admitted to having gone to Canette's house, but not on the date of the murder. On 134 December 1993, Haddouche was taken into custody, but denied the accusations and declared that he was in the Paris region with his companion: Cloé. Cloé arrived conveniently at the police station and confirmed the alibi. When the police asked her for clarification, she refused to answer questions and left the police station. In his cell in custody, Haddouche made a suicide attempt by injuring his veins with a lighter and was hospitalized. With the period of custody being over and the police not having enough evidence to convict Haddouche, the court abandoned the prosecution against him and closed the case.
At the end of May 1995, at the Charlie Brown bar on Guy Patin Street in Beauvais, Francine C., a pedagogical director in a medical-educational institute, was with a group of friends. Haddouche joined the group and befriended them. At the beginning of June 1995, Haddouche went to Francine's residence on Nicolas Pastour Street, but she refused to let him in. He knocked on the front door so hard that she finally decided to open it and let him in. He told her that he was exhausted because he had just finished a guard at Méru's hospital. Compassionate, she offered him some coffee which he asked for. When he finished, she told him to leave, but Haddouche refused, and told him that Cloé, his now former companion, was with Frederick, a former friend. He took her to the room, raped her and left. She threw the sheets and washed with bleach the places where Haddouche was at her place. During the following weeks, Haddouche harassed her on the phone and kept watch in front of her door. She did not dare to complain and sunk into depression.
In June 2002 in Beauvais, Haddouche reconnected with Isabelle, whom he had originally met in 1991 and pretended he was a doctor. They then began a brief relationship. One evening, a drunk Haddouche struck Isabelle in the face in the presence of her daughter. He called her the next day and asked her to bring him some heart medicine, claiming that he was dying. When Isabelle arrived, he raped her.
On 20 June 2002, around 7:00 pm, Haddouche entered the SONACOTRA home on d'Anjou Street in the Argentine district of Beauvais. Around 8:00 pm, he forced open the door to the studio of Léo Capon, a 73-year-old retiree. Haddouche attacked and slaughtered Capon, searching the apartment and stealing objects of little value. Nervous, Capon's daughter, Daniele, went to her mother's house. She was surprised that the front door was unlocked. When she entered, everything had been searched and all the objects were upside down. There were many traces of blood on the floor, and garbage bags filled with various objects near the front door. Capon was lying on her back, in the bathroom, her face covered with pieces of cardboard. On the video surveillance strips of the building, a balding man carrying bags full of items in each hand and a cap hiding his face was visible. Because of the poor-quality images, he could not be identified. Male DNA was discovered on various objects at Capon's house, but it was not listed in FNAEG. Capon was disfigured by the blows she had received, and forensic scientists established that she had died by choking on her own blood.
On 4 July 2002, in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Haddouche entered the apartment of Liliane D., the owner of a bar. He hit and tried to rape her, but was unsuccessful.
On 15 July 2002, at the bar L'endroit in Saint-Étienne, Sylvain Rome, a 32-year-old cameraman, sympathized with Haddouche at the counter. Around 4:00 pm, they left the bar together, Rome later buying drinks at the superette next to his home. Around 5:00 pm, David Sabido, a friend of Rome, came to his apartment, but Rome made him understand that he was bothering him and refused to let Sabido in. Haddouche later poisoned Rome with Bromazepam and stabbed him. He cleaned the apartment, and stole a checkbook, the mobile phone, Rome's identity papers and the keys to the apartment. On 17 July 2002, Sylvain Rome's father discovered him lying on his stomach on his bed.
The investigators established that Rome had a high blood alcohol level, was not depressed and did not consume antidepressants. A facial composite was made thanks to the descriptions of the bartender and Lucien Florent, a customer of the bar, with whom Haddouche spoke a little before meeting Rome.
At the end of August 2002, Haddouche seduced Nathalie, a young beneficiary of the RMI, to whom he introduced himself as a doctor at the hospital centre of Beauvais. One week later, while they were drinking, Haddouche drugged her second glass of kir without Nathalie's knowledge. She became sick and was hospitalized. He stole her bank card and all of Nathalie's RMI.
In September 2002, Haddouche tried to make contact with Francine, who had decided to file a complaint against him for the 1995 rape.
On 13 September 2002, in the Argentine district of Beauvais, Liliane Michaud, 82, who requires a walker to get around, was returning from the supermarket Intermarché. After arriving at her pavilion, Haddouche attacked her, savagely beating her and stealing her wallet. When the investigators described the abuser to the supermarket security agents, they positively identified Jacquy Haddouche.
On 30 September 2002, the police filed a summons against Haddouche, who did not attend.

## Arrest

On 2 October 2002, a little after 11:00 pm, in Gard, Haddouche tried to break into a station by breaking a window. A security guard noticed him and alerted police officers on patrol. They later spotted the drunk Haddouche, who resisted their arrest. He claimed to be a kinesiotherapist and that his name was Saïd Haddouche. By checking his fingerprints in the automated fingerprint file, the police discovered that his first name was Jacquy, not Saïd. After running his name through the wanted persons file, the police discovered he was wanted for murder in Beauvais.
Later, Liliane Michaud formally recognized Jacquy Haddouche.
On 3 December 2002, Haddouche was indicted for the murder of Léo Capon, but he denied it. Objects stolen from her home were found by the police when they searched his home. Haddouche then accused his roommate of being the murderer.
In 2003, Cloé confessed to the investigating judge that she had lied, because in December 1992, she did not know Haddouche yet. She only met him while she was studying in Beauvais.
The telephone records showed that Haddouche's mobile phone was detected by the cell site that covered the area where Sylvain Rome's apartment was on the date of the murder. In custody in St. Etienne, Haddouche recognized that it was mid-July 2002 he came to visit members of his family. In 2003, during the police lineup behind a beam splitter, Lucien Florent formally identified Haddouche. He finally admitted that he met Sylvain at the bar, but said that he had never been to his house.
Haddouche admitted to having met Francine C. at the bar Charlie Brown, but denied having gone to her home. He declared that the complaint for rape against him was revenge on the part of the victim because he did not give her the narcotics which she had ordered from him for an amount of 30,000 francs.

## List of known victims

| Date | Date | Place | Identity | Age | Profession / Activity |
| Facts | Discovery | Place | Identity | Age | Profession / Activity |
| 30 November 1992 | 1 December 1992 | Beauvais | Gilles Canette | 45 | French teacher |
| June 1995 | September 2002 | Beauvais | Francine C. | ? | Educational Director of an IME |
| 20 June 2002 | 21 June 2002 | Beauvais | Léo Capon | 73 | Retired |
| 4 July 2002 | 2002 | Boulogne-sur-Mer | Liliane D. | ? | Bar owner |
| 15 July 2002 | 27 July 2002 | Saint-Étienne | Sylvain Rome | 32 | Cameraman |
| 13 September 2002 | 13 September 2002 | Beauvais | Liliane Michaud | 82 | Retired |

## Trial and conviction

Jacquy Haddouche was sentenced by the tribunal correctionnel to 8 years in prison, for the attack on Liliane Michaud.
The defence of Jacquy Haddouche was provided by lawyers Karim Beylouni and Julien Vernet.
In 2007, the trial of Jacquy Haddouche began at the cour d'assises of the Loire in Saint-Etienne.
André Buffard was the lawyer of the family of Sylvain Rome.
In March 2007, Jacquy Haddouche was sentenced to 30 years in prison, with a 20-year lock-in period for the murder of Sylvain Rome. He tried to appeal this decision, but on the first day of the new trial, Haddouche gave it up.
On 23 April 2008, the trial of Jacquy Haddouche began at the cour d'assises of Oise in Beauvais.
Antoine Vaast was the lawyer of Gilles Canette's family, Philippe Tabart was the lawyer for Léo Capon's family and Virginie Bella-Gamba was the lawyer of Francine C.
On 7 May 2008, Haddouche was sentenced to life imprisonment with a 22-year lock-up period, with 20 years of mandatory care and treatment, for the murders of Gilles Canette and Léo Capon and the 1995 rape. He tried to appeal this decision.
On 9 March 2009, Haddouche's appeal trial began at the cour d'assises of the Somme in Amiens.
Haddouche admitted to the murder of Léo Capon and the attempted rape in Boulogne-sur-Mer but continued to deny the murder of Gilles Canette and the rape of 1995.
He was again sentenced to life imprisonment with a 22-year lock-in period.
Jacquy Haddouche appealed in cassation, but the appeal was dismissed.

## Death

On 23 October 2010, Jacquy Haddouche died from a cerebral haemorrhage in the Fresnes prison in the Val-de-Marne.

## TV documentary

* "Jacquy Haddouche, At the chance of crime" 2 May 2010 in Get the accused presented by Christophe Hondelatte on France 2.

## Radio show

* "Jacquy Haddouche" 21 March 2018 in Hondelatte tells presented by Christophe Hondelatte on Europe 1.