6584: Frenchman accused of killing wife to go on trial in Haiti (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: nozier <nozier@tradewind.net>

 Frenchman accused of killing  wife to go on trial in Haiti
TIMES OF INDIA____ 9 January 2001

 PORT-AU-PRINCE: The trial of a 42-year-old  Frenchman accused of
killing his wife on an island off the southwest coast of Haiti will open
Monday, the authorities confirmed here Sunday.Guy Cordier's wife Chantal
was found dead in June at  the foot of a cliff on the tiny Ile a Vache.
The couple, who had their two young daughters with them, had been
living and working on the island after their yacht was destroyed by
villagers on the Haitian coast, who mistook  them for Colombian drug
traffickers.  Chantal Cordier reportedly suffered from chronic
depression and had written two suicide notes.  The suspicions of the
Haitian authorities were aroused when her husband attempted to leave for
the neighboring Dominican Republic. (AFP)