Violent father, drugs, easily influenced, impulsive… Who are the two men prosecuted for attempted murder and complicity at the Ariège assizes?

Throughout the six hours of debates, which started late, Kévin and Gaspard let little emotion show on their faces. Only the first has shiny eyes, and discreetly wipes them when the personality investigator retraces his life until today.

Describing himself to the psychologist as a “proud Spanish Gypsy”, Kévin is the sixth of ten children, who united around their mother when their violent and alcoholic father left. “He took the place of the father and defended his mother at all costs, there was no call for outside help. He minimizes his actions, he justifies them by the need to survive,” relates the investigator. Tossed between his father and institutes for children with behavioral disorders, the young man grew up as best he could and met Aurélie at 17, she whom he described as “the great love of his life” but towards whom he showed lots of violence: death threats, broken teeth, etc.

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Both experts describe a boy who is easy to contact, with sincere regrets, but with impulsiveness that is difficult to repress, intolerant of frustration, emotionally deficient, which is expressed through violence… His life is punctuated by legal convictions for this reason and drugs, among others, but he swears today, he has “taken a step back from [sa] life”: “I had a click. At my age, everyone has a quiet life and when I see where I am, incarcerated, not knowing when I'm going to get out… It makes you think. After the trial we will see the future, but I aspire to a quiet life, without having to answer to justice. »

“A very identical start to life”

At the bar, Gaspard is less verbose than his co-accused, responding laconically to the magistrates' questions. He too experienced a tragedy in his childhood: eight years to the day before the facts for which he was appearing, his father, “a lazy cassos” according to his mother, attempted to murder the latter; facts for which he will be sentenced to 13 years in prison.

Those close to him describe him as easily influenced, one of the reasons they believe to explain his fall into petty delinquency as a teenager. His first words to the psychologist who assessed him in prison? “I was manipulated, I’m too nice. » “His slide towards the delinquent environment, we could see it as a desire to be adopted there,” says the expert: after the loss of the father figure, according to her, the young man would have needed “heroic figures » to “be recognized and fill one's emotional deficiencies”, like a child in search of knowledge.

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However, when Maître Daffis-Costa asks her if the power that Kévin seems to like to manifest could also be exercised on others, and particularly on an “influenceable” Gaspard, the psychologist clarifies her thoughts: “He has a presence, a presence certain, but taking power over others, I don't know if we can go that far. » Still, she wants to show her astonishment when she realized the similarity between the lives of the two young co-defendants: “A chaotic childhood, behavioral and socialization problems, a trivialization of consumption toxic… Both had an almost very identical start to life, which perhaps created this bond between them, unconsciously.”