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The trial for the assassination of Hadrian, under the Alzou bridge in Villefranche-de-Rouergue in 2021, opened yesterday before the Aveyron Assize Court. Five accused appear, including two main. The oldest has already killed in his youth …
This June 25, 2021, Villefranche-de-Rouergue and its inhabitants Take advantage of the first rays of summer of the summer. Hadrien, 31, slender build and immaculate blue eyes, is invited to participate in a barbecue under the Alzou bridge. He will not take advantage of it. Without knowing it, he just fell into an ambush … In the evening, he will succumb to a rare surge of violence. We talk about half an hour of hits received. Of fists, foot, using stones picked up on the ground, all interspersed with drowning scenes in the river. The 30 -year -old could never defend himself, many of them hit him and he quickly falls into a coma. It will not come back. His body is found the next day, lying in the water.
These facts, reported yesterday by the president of the Assize Court of Aveyron Sylvie Rouanne, the civil party still has a hard time hearing them. Why then the one who was their son, their brother, did their nephew suffer such a “fury”, which he knew vulnerable because of his schizophrenia and who had just left Albi for Villefranche-de-Rouergue whom he loved so much? The answer is not more heard: a simple rumor, unfounded, is at the origin … This afternoon of June 25, 2021, on Saint-Jean square where Pétanque is played, Hadrian is taken to task by “Two gypsies”according to several testimonies. They criticize him for being a pedophile … The homophobic insults are also raising. Without any reason. But, the rumor is well known, spreads as fast as lying. So she goes around the city and its marginal circles.
Chaotic course
A forties, Elvis M., assures that he will “Give a lesson” young. It must be said that those who know Elvis say that he likes to play the big arms, despite an imposing physique. He already killed when he was young. It was in the Parisian suburbs. He did a few years in prison and in Aveyron, where he settled afterwards, he would like to boast about it. Then, in case it degenerates, he always has a knife on him. And he knows people. Companions of misfortune.
-As Sylvain H. is much younger, not even thirty and grew up in Perpignan without real landmarks: his father committed suicide when he was seven years old, he will find a few years later his stepfather hanged in the garage, his mother lives in a precarious situation. Above all, he has had an intellectual disabilities from an early age. He says he does not know how to read, nor write, and his passages in specialized institutes have arranged anything.
In Aveyron, he wanted to gain autonomy, alone in an apartment, far from a family also marked by incest … When he was still a minor, Sylvain H. has already known the Assize Court, this time for rapes against his half-sister with whom he lived: she was between 9 and 13 years old. But that, they say he doesn’t like to talk about it. And when in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, he hears the rumor, too “See red” : “I don’t like it, my nephews were victims of an attacker”, he repeats. In the afternoon, in the pétanque field, he also wanted to strike Hadrien. But he selected himself then with Elvis M., a scenario was found: why not invite him to a barbecue in the evening, out of sight, under the Alzou bridge?
To do this, it is called upon to a homeless homelessness temporarily housed by the Village 12 association, and with whom Hadrien sympathized the day before. The invitation is launched, the Albigensian does not be wary. Another couple of Villefranchois will also follow. But whether it be “friend” or companions, they assure that they did not give blows and appear free during this trial. They incur five years in prison for voluntary abstention from preventing a crime. All told the same thing: Sylvain H. violently struck Hadrian, Elvis M. wanted “Take it”.
These two, alone in the accused’s box, often low-headed, have not yet been able to express themselves on this evening, but also the sometimes divergent versions on this or that responsibility … The court has focused on the personality of each, with a long ball of experts. The debates will resume this Monday, May 12.
