Presented in court, the
e-mails and text messages of Edouard Stern, head of a French banking family, to
Cecile Brossard, his lover, suggested a deep-rooted obsession that ended when
she shot him one February evening four years ago. Police found him tied to a
chair and dressed in a latex suit. “You are a sh** and I vomit on you,” writes
Stern on one occasion, and on another: “I love you madly, for ever. Your little
devil.” He says how “sad” he is that they “scolded” each other. Later he writes:
“You’re just a whore. You would have worked for the Gestapo during the war. You
would have turned me in as a Jew.”
The defence has tried to present
the killing as a “crime of passion” in which Brossard, a 40-year-old former
escort girl and shop assistant, exploded in anger when Stern, alluding to a gift
of $1m that he was taking back from her, said: “A million is a lot to pay for a
whore.”

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