Daniel Malgouyres, the owner of the garden Saint-Adrien de Servian, out of prison

Daniel Malgouyres, the owner of Jardin Saint-Adrien in Servian got out of prison this Tuesday noon after more than a year of pretrial detention. He was incarcerated in Beziers. The Montpellier Court of Appeal has refused to extend his pre-trial detention for another six months.

Daniel Malgouyres was released from prison around noon, he was expected by his lawyer Maitre Darriguade, his sister and his daughter. His wife was not present. When he came out he had a few words for the journalists present.

"We ended up facing two ferocious beasts"

"It's crazy what they did to me. You can not imagine, I've been waiting for this moment for so long. You do not realize, find yourself in prison like this overnight! "

Then he returns on the evening of the drama, October 5, 2017 during the burglary of his house. That night he shot a rifle at one of the two thieves who had broken into his home. His wife, Françoise Malgouyres, was beaten by the criminals. "The night of the robbery, we ended up with my wife facing two ferocious beasts. They slaughtered us. We were very lucky to get by. I'm terrified of the gesture I had to make, but it was Françoise's life that was at stake. I apologize to the family (from the deceased burglar NDLR) I know he has children. But what can be done in these cases? "

"I am innocent, they find evidence!"

Daniel Malgouyres admits to having shot at the burglar who threatened him, claiming that he was in a state of legitimate defense, but the justice also blames him for having organized his own robbery, relying in particular on the statements of the second burglar who accuses Daniel Malgouyre for having sponsored a false home jacking to appropriate the money of his wife. Since the beginning of this affair, Daniel Malgouyres continues to deny any involvement, he says he did not know the burglars and continues to claim his innocence from the beginning: "After they put me in prison without proof, we talked about complicity with the gardener … Fortunately I had cellmates very well and I greet them, but it was terrible. In the clutches of justice … Fortunately I have a good lawyer, I nicknamed him the warrior, I do not know how others do without a good lawyer. "

"I am innocent, they will take me to the meeting without any proof, let them find the proofs, I told them, if you find a single proof, I sell all my estate and I give all the money to the league against cancer and you will put me in jail the time you want. ".

"If I had stayed longer in prison, I would have hanged myself"

Daniel Malgouyres is free but under judicial control, with a ban on staying in the department of Herault, he will go to the Pyrénées-Orientales with his sister who has a second home there.

"My goal today is to reunite my family who is broken, fortunately I have my family, my brother, my daughter, my brother, _without it I will not have held_. I was thinking in my cell, how to do with sheets. My lawyer, Master Darriguade, from the first second he knew that I was innocent. Why him and not the others? "

Daniel Malgouyres was imprisoned since October 20, 2017 and indicted for murder but also for complicity in attempted robbery, criminal conspiracy and attempted murder against the second burglar, Richard Bruno, who managed to escape that night.