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An unbearable torture scene in the heart of the Marolles in Brussels: the two torturers of Yacine are in the accused box

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Lawyers Florent Pivin and Ahmed El Abouti pictured during the start of the trial of Micha¿l Pindeville and a second individual, a minor at the time of the events, for torture resulting in death as part of a drug-related settlement, in the Brussels-Capital Assizes Court in Brussels, Monday 05 May 2025. The two men are accused of torturing a man in his thirties, Yacine, to the point of killing him, in March 2022 in the Marolles district of Brussels. Yacine was a Lawyers Florent Pivin and Ahmed El Abouti pictured during the start of the trial of Micha¿l Pindeville and a second individual, a minor at the time of the events, for torture resulting in death as part of a drug-related settlement, in the Brussels-Capital Assizes Court in Brussels, Monday 05 May 2025. The two men are accused of torturing a man in his thirties, Yacine, to the point of killing him, in March 2022 in the Marolles district of Brussels. Yacine was a
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A part of the parts with convictions.A part of the parts with convictions.
A part of the parts with convictions. © TC

Beaten with kicks, fist, rape with a stick, strangles, iron burns on the chest and the genitals, gas cylinders, burned with a deodorant used as a flame thrower, sprayed with ammonia … The description made of the torture scene is so unbearable for relatives of the victim, that some had to leave the assize court Haren for the next few days.

100 euros cocaine

How to explain such an outburst of violence? Initially, Michaël Pindeville had agreed to provide him once again from cocaine on credit, on March 8, 2022. A decision that did not please Ahmed El Batouti, considered by several witnesses as one of the managers of drug trafficking carried out at Visitandines, despite his age at the time, 17 years old. The victim was already liable to him by 100 euros in cocaine, in addition to the previous with this tenant of the 8th.Ugly of the Judicial World: The International Prisons Observatory denounces the unworthy actions of the prosecution with regard to prison overcrowding

Yacine M’rabet was drug addict, he used “” on behalf of the dealers. In this case, the forties kept a safe filled with drugs. Previously, using a affixed to one of the two holes located at the back of the trunk, planned to be hung on the wall, Yacine had “burned” the cocaine stored to inhale it via the second hole.

Michaël Pindeville, one of the two accused.Michaël Pindeville, one of the two accused.
Michaël Pindeville, one of the two accused. © Facebook

Ahmed El Battouti had to put the records at the risk of being rosted by his own “bosses”, of which he will never give the name.

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Yacine was “arrogant”, he did not take history seriously assured the accused in hearing. Michaël struck him for the time and threw her crack . Yacine got angry and they hit her again. He fell Ko and waking up, he was invited to undress by his torturers. He refuses, they force him.Ugly of the judicial world: “There is a risk of a massive flight to the private sector”, estimates Denis Goeman, famous of Brussels

Since he had consumed cocaine, the victim did not feel pain declared these jailers. It annoyed them all the more since the victim smiled and laughed at them every time. This is where Hmed saw the iron in a wardrobe. Yacine M’rabet is burned in the chest and on the genitals. “”This is where Hmed realized what he was doing“, Insurance Michaël Pindeville.A patient gets impatient at the Erasme in Anderlecht and assaulted a doctor: “There was a dosage error in his medications at the time”

The torturers find the state of Ahmed. His face is pale, his breathing is jerky and foam comes out of his mouth. Michaël Pindeville and Ahmed El Battouti place him in the bathtub and the spray of cold water in the hope of rewarding him. In vain, Yacine M’rabet is alive but he remains inert, Ahmed leaves the apartment and Michaël then descends the victim to abandon him at the foot of the block, where he will remain alone until the of help.

The two accused must still be heard before the Brussels Assize Court.

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