WORLD BRIEFING / SWITZERLAND
A woman who admitted killing one of France’s richest men during sex games told a Swiss court she shot him dead because he called her a whore.
“Of course I am 100% guilty because I did it,” Cecile Brossard, mistress of slain banker Edouard Stern, told the 15-member jury, adding that she lost control when he told her, “One million for a whore, that’s expensive.”
The body of the 50-year-old Stern was found in his penthouse apartment in Geneva in 2005. He was wearing a latex suit and had been shot twice in the head and twice in the body, authorities said.
Brossard, 40, was arrested two weeks later and confessed, according to prosecutor Daniel Zappelli.
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