Joliette: blood of the victim in the vehicle of the accused

JOLIETTE | Traces of the victim’s blood were found in the vehicle of the man who is accused of brutally killing his 71-year-old father in Charlemagne in 2018.

“I have a predominant profile corresponding to Roger Fleury’s DNA,” forensic biologist Maria Fiorillo said on Tuesday of the samples taken from the cup holder of Yanik Fleury’s Dodge Caravan.

The septuagenarian’s DNA was also found on the bottom of the driver’s seat.

The jury trial of Yanik Fleury, 48, continued Tuesday at the Joliette courthouse. He is charged with committing unpremeditated murder on December 12, 2018.

That evening, the body of her father, Roger, was seen by a passerby in a parking lot on rue du Sacré-Coeur.

He was lying on the ground, outside his Hyundai Azera car, whose door was open.

According to Ms. Fiorillo, it would be “compatible” that the victim with the bloody face received ten blows with a stick.

Nearly two hours after the macabre discovery, Yanik Fleury would have shown up on the scene. Agitated, he reportedly told police that he had finished work early and had come to visit his father.

However, a surveillance camera from the town hall located 75 m away would have captured Fleury smoking a cigarette in his Caravan, parked in the space of the mayor of the municipality of Lanaudière.

He would have stayed there for about three quarters of an hour, between 4:30 p.m. and 5:12 p.m.

Money problems

Moreover, according to the prosecution, the accused had financial problems. On Tuesday, his brother came to testify.

“He hadn’t worked for a little while,” said Roger Jr Fleury, 44.

The latter said that he and his father had to lend Yanik money on several occasions so that he could take care of his children, when he had custody of them, every other weekend.

“They had a very good relationship,” he said, however, about the bond between the accused and the victim.

fake check

According to Roger Jr Fleury, their father would have often inquired about the financial situation of his eldest, who did not have a bank account.

Shortly before the murder, Yanik would have asked his father to cash a check obtained for a small work contract, and to return the money to him, related the witness.

The septuagenarian would then have realized that the check was bottomless.

“It was Yanik who signed it. He [leur père] was a little angry. Afterwards, he said to himself that it would be his Christmas present in advance, ”reported the brother of the accused.

According to him, the accused would also have run out of money to pay his rent in the fall, and had a payment arrears of several months on his vehicle.

The victim’s inheritance was around $100,000, according to Roger Jr Fleury, whose testimony is expected to continue on Wednesday.