When the police from the Boraine area arrived, for a disturbing person on the public highway, Raphaël Tourtois was shouting. He was shirtless, covered in his father’s blood, and wanted to do battle with the police. He was hysterical, screaming that his father was dead. The police found Daniel’s body lying in the bedroom.
Due to the large quantity of blood at the crime scene, rescuers and police officers believed it was a slitting of the throat. This was not the case; it was the violent blows to the face, combined with strangulation, which caused death.
A morphoanalysis of the blood traces made it possible to define that the blows were carried out in several places in the victim’s home.
According to the accused, he lost his temper when his father told him that he did not care about the suspicions of pedophilia brought against him, because he was planning to go and live in Thailand, a country that the accused compares “in pedophile’s paradise“. According to his lawyers, something unexpected happened because the accused did not show up at his father’s house in a belligerent spirit.
In the family circle, Daniel Tourtois was suspected of having touched several minor children, including the two daughters of the accused. However, no one filed a complaint against him.
Friday morning, the attorney general requested a sentence of eighteen years of criminal imprisonment, while asking the college not to go below the fifteen year mark. Me Pol Descamps had pleaded for a sentence of between eight and twelve years in prison, declaring that his client’s entire life was a mitigating circumstance.
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