A week after the murder of Lilian Dejean in Grenoble by a hit-and-run driver, the brother of the municipal agent spoke to RTL. He asked the alleged perpetrator to be “a good man”.
It’s been a week since the tragedy occurred. On Sunday, September 8, in Grenoble, a reckless driver caused an accident and shot dead Lilian Dejean, a municipal employee who was trying to prevent a hit-and-run. The alleged murderer was identified by investigators, but is still on the run. The victim’s brother, Jean-Marc, spoke to RTLSaturday, September 14. He asks the alleged murderer to be “a good man”, acknowledging that “we all make mistakes”.
He calls on the alleged perpetrator to surrender to the authorities, assuring that “when you don’t take responsibility for your actions as a man, you’re not a man because you’re a coward.” In the incomprehension of the gesture of the man who killed his brother, Jean-Marc Dejean returns to the facts and believes that it could have happened differently: “They could have had difficult words. I come from the neighborhood, we know how to explain ourselves with words. Maybe sometimes, we go a little further than words, but it remains within a ‘legal’ framework, but there, to take a weapon… Because he could have shot in the air, and there my brother, courageous as he was, would have thought above all of his children and it would have stopped there.”
Comfort found in family and support from France
A week after his brother’s death, Jean-Marc Dejean explains that he is coping with the shock thanks to “love and kindness” and “thanks the whole of France”, assuring: “I feel it. It’s huge”. The man finally explains: “When I was a kid, my brother told me one day ‘if I ever have to leave, you’ll take responsibility if I have children’, and well, I’m going to take responsibility […] As I told my wife, I don’t have 5 children anymore, I have 8 children,” taking care of his brother’s children.