A sick killer who slaughtered three of his female coworkers who he accused of trying to ruin his life has been given a life sentence for his crimes.
While Gabriel Fortin, 48, was given the hefty sentence for murder and attempted murder in the French city of Valence today (June 29), he will only have to spend a maximum of 22 years behind bars thanks to France's sentencing laws.
Fortin, who the French press dubbed the "HR killer", was arrested in 2021 several days after committing a three-day-long killing spree that saw him kill three women and nearly kill a man, all of whom worked in human resources.
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Beginning his spree on January 26 in the Alsace region of eastern France, the disgruntled man shot HR manager Estelle Luce in the head in her company’s car park after she finished work.
Later that evening, around 30 miles away, he posed as a pizza delivery driver to get to the home of Bertrand Meichel, who managed to survive after taking a bullet,the BBC reports.
Two days after these attacks and more than 300 miles away, he pulled up to a job centre in Valence wearing a facemask and carrying a gun before he shot and killed the centre’s benefits director Patricia Pasquion.
Minutes later another HR manager, Géraldine Caclin, was killed at an environmental services company near Valence.
Investigating cops found that Ms Luce and Mr Meichel had been involved in Fortin's dismissal from a company in 2006, while Ms Caclin led dismissal proceedings against the engineer after an unsuccessful trial period in 2009.
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Ms Pasquion never directly dealt with Fortin, but police believed he held a grudge against staff at the Valence job centre, where he was registered until 2013.
While he was given a life sentence, the sole survivor of the attacks is not happy that he will have to spend a maximum of just 22 years in jail
Bertrand said: "When the death penalty was abolished in 1981, we were promised life imprisonment," he said.
"Today, the law limits life imprisonment to 22 years, and the court will have no choice but to comply."
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