Roland Bondonny (May 1932,

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– February 2005) was a wealthy

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who lived in

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, in

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and also in Fourmies in

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. He poisoned 144 pets between 1997 and 2001. Bondonny had fed them meatballs contaminated with

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. He hired Alain Bodchon to kill Marius Lac, a witness for the prosecution in the case against Bondonny. Marius Lac's body was found dead in his garage, his body hidden under a wheelbarrow. on August 25, 2004. Shortly before he was to appear in court in February 2005, he committed

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