Cyril Jacquet shot his mother three times using his father's automatic pistol after she entered the family home.

Cyril Jacquet, 29, and his girlfriend were among the contestants on a new show to be aired on the Antena 3 channel on Sunday night. But the pair were pulled from the programme after rumours surfaced on the internet that he had murdered his parents when he was 15 years old.In 1994, Jacquet shot his mother three times using his father's automatic pistol after she entered the family home. A few hours later, Jacquet used the remaining seven bullets for his father.He was pictured smiling at their funeral and eventually confessed to the double killing claiming they had "scolded him" and "sometimes" hit him. After serving less than three years in a youth detention centre he was released with no criminal record under Spanish law because he was a minor at the time.
Organisers of the show La Vuelta al Mundo (Around the World) which follows young couples as they race around the globe competing with each other for a 200,000 euros (£180,000) prize, claim they had no knowledge of his past.But fans of the show did their own research and discovered the crime, which was well publicised at the time.
Jacquet and his girlfriend Paola Alberdi, 24, were flown home from Venice before the first show was aired."The programme did not know," a presenter told viewers on the show's debut on Sunday night. "After we checked the facts of the case we brought them back to Spain to protect them from media attention."Jacquet, now a flight attendant, was in the studio and blamed the media and "undesirable" people for preventing him from participating in the reality show."They don't let you leave the past behind," he complained. "I don't want to keep giving them the excuse to lynch me.""But I will always hold my head up high," he said. "People change."

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