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One year after the death of Benjamin Arnauné, a 33-year-old Rugby player, killed on December 30, 2023, by his ex-partner, in Bagnères-de-Bigorre (Hautes-Pyrénées), the investigation reveals the worrying contours of a woman with abois, who had searched on the internet for “how to kill a man”.
The digital traces left by Tatiana Bouarie on her cell phone are overwhelming. “How to kill a man with a gun, kill while sleeping, kill with a pellet gun, head shot, kill with a knife, with a hunting weapon“.
From December 3 to 12, 2023, the woman who had to take her things and leave the gîte in Bagnères-de-Bigorre, made available to her by Benjamin Arnauné with whom the separation was painful, did some worrying research on the internet. And everything indicates, upon reading these chilling key words, that the young woman is preparing to commit the irreparable.
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At the end of 2023, Tatiana, 35, who cannot bring herself to live without her childhood sweetheart, begins a descent into hell. In her personal notes, she addresses the moon, mentioning that she wants to “find Benjamin again”, that she wants to “make love again with Benjamin”. The image of this man who escapes him becomes obsessive.
In her research, she sets out to find an underwater hunting weapon. “How to kill with a harpoon“. It was on Leboncoin that she found a holder of this type of hunting weapon which equips underwater divers. The appointment was made. But she was unable to adjust the elastic which released the arrow She won’t buy it.
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“Deep sleep”
The romance with this young 34-year-old rugby player, employed at a wine and spirits distributor, ends after many years as a couple. Benjamin plans to start a new life with another woman. He has just finished building his new house, located just a few meters from the family gîte, hamlet of Lesponne, between Bagnères-de-Bigorre and Baudéan.
-On December 29, 2023, he and Tatiana meet again in the gîte. A final meeting, at the request of the young woman, according to the investigation, which she disputes. According to his statements, Benjamin reproaches him about the quality of the dinner. He allegedly insisted that she gather her things and leave the home for good. In any case, that’s what was agreed.
For Tatiana, Benjamin even added: “If you don’t leave with your things, you won’t see your grandparents again.” She then explains that she “twisted”.
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Shortly after one o’clock in the morning, on December 30, she did a final search on the internet: “deep sleep“. She takes the hunting rifle that she got from a relative, then opens fire with a 20 caliber in the direction of Benjamin, who is asleep. He is hit in the head. She evokes a gesture accidental, when he turned around Then, she set fire to the lodge, wanting to commit suicide. She extricated herself from the flames and began four days on the run before being arrested by the police from the research section. from Toulouse, in charge of the investigation.
No mental disorder
Heard three times by the investigating judge of Pau, she evokes “domestic violence, rape” that Benjamin allegedly made her suffer. Violent behavior at odds with and in total contradiction with the statements made by the victim’s loved ones, entourage and family.
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Words typed on the internet? “That was what Benjamin said to me and wanted to do to me,” she said, in her last statements. Dated June 2024, the psychiatric expertise does not reveal any pathology or mental disorder. But a propensity for “victimization”, for the “distortion” of reality.
A year after the tragic death of Benjamin, his family represented by the Toulouse lawyer, Me Jacques Derieux, who did not wish to speak, is awaiting the trial and the explanations of this woman with a complex personality, indicted for “assassination”. She is still in pre-trial detention and faces life imprisonment. His trial date has not yet been set.
