Dhe bloody footprints around an inert body lying on the ground, disfigured and dressed in overalls: the scene left its mark on the witnesses of this macabre discovery. On April 10, 2021, around 7 p.m., the lifeless body of Pierre Sourgen, 67, was found by a local resident in the technical room of a residence located rue Edgar-Degas in Floirac.
Called for help, the firefighters were unable to revive the severely beaten sixty-year-old. Very quickly, faced with this “major facial smash” according to the autopsy conclusions, the trail of an act of criminal origin, caused by the intervention of one or more third parties, is required.
Since Thursday, November 7, four young people have been appearing before the Gironde Assize Court for murder and complicity in murder. A young girl is tried for failure to assist a person in danger. She would have remained passive in the face of events.
Unleash of violence
The police investigations were guided by anonymous information providing a name, fueled by the exploitation of telephone lines around this first suspect and supplemented by a neighborhood investigation and DNA samples from cigarette butts or cans abandoned not far from the scene of the crime and under the soles of sneakers seized during the search.
In the box, it's an electric battery, a detonator ready to explode
Arrested five days after the incident, the accused were reportedly looking for a place out of sight to smoke joints and drink alcohol. That day, the retiree, who had spent the afternoon tinkering, was there. Did he make a remark about their presence or a thought about the young woman, did he insult them? The result is an outburst of gratuitous violence by young people drunk on vodka and drugged, distributing kicks and punches.
The consistent versions of four accused accentuate the central role of Romain Barros, in particular because he would have returned to the premises to deliver the blow. He was 21 years old at the time of the events and has been in pre-trial detention since. “I have no activity, I don't move, when I ask to work they tell me 'waiting list', when I want to do sport 'waiting list', I'm fed up », he rages.
Multiple convictions
In the box, it's an electric battery, a detonator ready to explode. A child from the Benauge district of Bordeaux, he left school in CM2 – “I'm not going to start again now, I don't like it” – was placed on numerous occasions, including in an educational center and was first incarcerated at age 16. “My mother couldn’t handle me. I wasn’t listening to him, I was only thinking about myself,” he barks.
He fell into drugs as a teenager – “always cannabis, I don’t touch anything else” – as well as alcohol. Insolent, provocative, he “thinks nothing” of what people think of him, addresses the attorney general with contempt. Romain Barros describes himself in a few words, knows he is “impulsive”, says he is “positive” and denies being “a violent gentleman”. However, ten convictions are recorded on his criminal record, including seven for violence, not counting incidents in detention.
When Me Maeva Bosch, lawyer for one of his co-defendants, asks him for a definition of the word “violence”, that’s the spark. “Fuck your mother!” I don't give a damn about your questions. » Suspension of hearing. The trial is scheduled for six days.
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