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Via the testimony of several witnesses and experts on the second day of the trial of two twenty-year-olds, tried for attempted murder and complicity, the room was able to touch with its fingertips the brutality which emerges from the Lavelanet apartment where the murders took place. facts.
A “smashed” door, an “upturned” apartment, a “tangled” room: when one of the first responders describes the crime scene at the heart of the attempted assassination trial judged until Friday, November 15 by the court of At the base of Ariège, you could hear a pin drop.
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The room and the jurors are hanging on the lips of the Lavelanetian firefighter, whose voice is not raised high but whose words hit the mark at every moment; his gestures betray the images that came back to him during his testimony and the care he was able to provide that morning. “To tell the truth, I was shocked by this smell of hemoglobin which took up my whole nose. I can tell you, at 6:30 in the morning, when you don't necessarily expect it, it's an adrenaline rush. »
An enlightening blood spatter analysis
He is only one among the many witnesses who appeared before the court and the jurors on this second day of hearing in the trial of Kévin* and Gaspard*, the first mainly accused of attempted assassination and the second of complicity. When on Tuesday the room was able to appreciate the words of Aurélie and David, two of the three victims – alongside Naël, the third – of the violence which was unleashed on that night of March 7 to 8, 2020, these were the people gravitating around this Lavelanetian apartment where the bloodbath which outlined its contours took place.
Blood and violence are undoubtedly two elements that will remain in mind throughout the day. The intervention of an expert in morphoanalysis of blood traces from the Gendarmerie Criminal Research Institute (IRCG) notably occupied the end of the morning and the minds. This is the first time that Aurélie's apartment appears on screen, stained with blood stains which stand out even more in a light-colored room.
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According to the projections observed on the walls, “there are at least three blows on David and two on Naël”, what is more “with great intensity”, affirms the gendarme, who adds that this can correspond to the foot of metal table found several months after the incident. The research director of the investigation, also a gendarme, notes in the preamble “a particularly violent crime scene, given the traces of blood found”.
If Aurélie was not hit by this blunt object, the report of the forensic doctor who examined her is just as edifying as to the state of her body after the beating. Wounds on the skull, lesions on the face, bruises and hematomas on the shoulder blades, arms and legs… “Around ten blows”, will underline the report of the expert from the Intercommunal Hospital Center of the Valleys of Ariège (Chiva) . This is because the violence seems to permeate the walls of the apartment and follow the young woman wherever she goes, she who confesses to the psychologist that she “feels like she only has a difficult life”. “The walls were thin, I often heard them getting into each other's faces,” admits the neighbor upstairs, who speaks of Kévin's influence over Aurélie. “When I saw her arrive in the hallway that night, she was full of blood, she was limping, she was panicked,” adds the young woman. And David was in a pool of blood, almost drowning in it. »
Looking for a “pouchka”
Maître Vitrac, Aurélie's advisor, asks the director of the investigation if we can speak of stalking of the young woman by her ex-companion: “That's the impression that emerges, from less for me, she explains. He sends her 155 messages in the afternoon before the incident, it looks like he is sending his henchmen to get her with a false excuse to give her money back.” The lawyer does not fail to reread this message in particular: “You are going to lose everything and I am going to kill him”.
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More than this message, there is also the quest for a “pouchka” from several people in Lavelanet in the middle of the night, a term which astonishes the gendarmes enough that they try to understand its meaning and they fall on “firearm” in the slang dictionary: “Clearly, he was not looking for a vegetable peeler,” suggests the attorney general.
