The civil parties and the attorney general asked, Thursday morning, the jurors of the Hainaut Assize Court to pronounce the guilt of Raphaël Tourtois, accused of the murder of his father, Daniel, committed in Frameries on November 20, 2022. learned in the afternoon that the man had been found guilty.
Raphaël Tourtois found guilty at the Hainaut assizes. The man was tried there for the murder of his father, in Frameries, in November 2022.
The jury of the Hainaut Assize Court pronounced, on Thursday, the guilt of Raphaël Tourtois, aged 44, for the murder of his father, Daniel, committed in the latter’s house at the Belle-Vue residence in Frameries, November 20, 2022.
That evening, the accused punched his dad violently in the head and strangled him.
For the jurors, this confirms the intention to kill.
According to the accused, he “screwed up” when his father declared that he “did not care” suspicions of touching committed against minors to which he was the subject within the family, and that he intended to go to live in Thailand, a country which the accused compares to a “paradise for pedophiles”.
The parricide was not contested.
The sentencing debate will take place on Friday.
Raphaël Tourtois justice Miscellaneous facts
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