Miriam B., 67, the woman who runs the company responsible for caring for Ms. Lifau, used her credit card on Tuesday to steal more than 140,000 euros (approximately 120,000 yen) of her money. He was put on trial on suspicion of provoking the suspect. Payment from ATM or online.
Her alleged purchases included Chanel perfume, Claudy Pierlot clothes and handbags, a Pokemon T-shirt, and a “clitoral vibrator” purchased from Amazon. Withdrawal amounts varied between tens of thousands of euros and thousands of euros.
Witnesses cited in the case said she even pretended to be 99 years old by going to the bank and withdrawing €15,000 (£13,000) from her life insurance account.
The defendant is charged with “aggravated abuse of a vulnerable person” against a “vulnerable person” and faces a maximum sentence of seven years in prison and a fine of 750,000 euros (£646,000).
years of deception
An investigation was launched after the suspect became suspicious of an assistant who had instructed him not to open the sealed envelope containing Rifau’s bank details.
When the employee finally opened the statement, she was shocked to find that the nearly 100-year-old woman had paid for items that were inconceivable given her “frugal lifestyle”. Ta.
Ms Rifau rarely ate, but inspectors found her sometimes “mind-boggling” food costs rose steadily between 2013 and December 2021, including restaurant deliveries. I realized that.
Despite being bedridden since 2018, it has been revealed that Miriam B. regularly made payments to beauty salons and salons in response to changes in her hairstyle and clothing.
Meanwhile, pensioners had their hair cut by cleaning ladies and wore the same moisturizer and perfume for years.
Friends who visited said the former resistance fighter seemed ignored and confessed that she had not washed her hair in “months”.
Miriam B. “immediately intervened,” Rifor told police, adding that she “retains all mental faculties and therefore has an excellent memory.” [her] Ruined her life and prevented certain people around her from seeing her. ”
Ms. Lifo is a “diva”
Miriam B., who has been in police custody since April, claims that all of these expenses were justified because Riffo lived a “quite lavish life”.
A care worker described the elderly woman as a “diva who demanded excessive attention” and claimed that she was “particularly fond of delicious food, and would hand out expensive gifts without regard for the value of money.”
Riffaud, who was unable to attend the trial, told France Inter on Tuesday: I can fight. ”
Miriam B. denies wrongdoing.
french heroine
Ms Rifaud began working for the French Interior Forces at the age of 18 under the codename “Reiner” and took part in several operations against the Nazi occupation forces, helping to capture 80 Wehrmacht soldiers from a German armored supply train. did.
On July 23, 1944, on her 20th birthday, she shot and killed a German officer in broad daylight on a bridge overlooking the Seine.
She told Le Monde newspaper that the idea was to “step up action so that Paris stands up” after the Normandy landings. “We had to make a scene by shooting the Germans in front of everyone, preferably in front of the police, to send a signal and show that this was the solution.”
Riffaud was captured by French collaborators, handed over to the Gestapo, tortured, and held in Flaine prison. Although she managed to escape from a train bound for the Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp, she was recaptured and sentenced to death.
She was released at the 11th hour in a prisoner exchange.