Dear readers,
Arnaud Beltrame is a hero.
A real.
A hero who inspires admiration and whose name should be learned in all schools in France.
On March 23, 2018, the lieutenant colonel exchanged his “places” with that of a cashier taken hostage.
“Arnaud Beltrame is not a victim, he died in combat, for France,”
said Me Thibault de Montbrial, lawyer for the Beltrame family, before the start of the trial for the Trèbes and Carcassonne attacks.
The hearing opened on Monday January 22 without the killer - Islamist terrorist Radouane Lakdim was killed by the police after having murdered four people - but with seven accused.
Among them, a fanatic girlfriend, a boyfriend on the run and city bosses.
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In the rest of the current news…
A farmer and her daughter killed in Ariège
After little Lola killed in her 19th century building, Claire raped in her building lobby in Paris and a multitude of less publicized news items, yet another case involves individuals subject to an obligation to leave French territory.
The now famous OQTF.
This time, it was a breeder, Alexandra Sonac, and her 12-year-old daughter, Camille, who paid with their lives.
Tuesday January 23 at dawn, on the RN 20 linking Toulouse to Andorra, a vehicle ran into a straw barrier erected by farmers.
The straw wall was covered with a large black tarpaulin.
Protesters who were eating were just behind.
The car, caught in its momentum, hit three members of the same family before ending its course against the trailer of a tractor.
The occupants?
Three Armenians under OQTF.
The driver was indicted for “aggravated manslaughter”.
The two passengers were released.
Murder of Sandra, 23, in a Franprix
The trial of Shamran Mehmood Raja opened Tuesday January 23 before the Créteil Assize Court (Val-de-Marne).
This 37-year-old Pakistani man is suspected of having killed Sandra, a 23-year-old student, who was doing an internship in an ice cream company.
The young woman toured Franprix de l'Essonne to check the visibility of the products on the shelves.
Shamran ran the cash register at the Franprix in Quincy-sous-Sénart.
The young woman's body was found in the trunk of her car.
The young woman was still dressed but barefoot.
His wrists and ankles were bound with duct tape.
His face was completely wrapped in tape.
According to the autopsy, Sandra died of strangulation and asphyxiation.
His corpse was very likely kept in the Franprix cold room.
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The paranoid disorders of the “madman from the Cévennes”
Valentin Marcone is on trial for the assassination of his boss, Luc Teissonnière, 54, and his colleague, Martial Guérin, 32, shot dead on May 11, 2021 at the Plantiers sawmill, in Gard.
After the double homicide, this firearms enthusiast holed up for four days in a wild boar hole in the middle of the forest.
Bullying at school, then professional conflicts, gave rise to a feeling of insecurity and persecution in Valentin Marcone.
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Student tied up and raped in Val-de-Marne: the suspect's heavy past
A 20-year-old student experienced horror on Thursday January 18 in the evening.
The young woman was followed, tied up and raped at knifepoint in her apartment, located in a university residence.
A suspect was quickly arrested by the judicial police.
We now know more about his profile.
This 25-year-old man born in Congo was already known to the courts for sexual assault and rape.
He was released from prison on January 4.
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Yesterday's fact
Le Figaro of January 28, 1994 Le Figaro
“It’s the thinness of her lips that is striking. Glued together, almost pinched, they move forward and backward in a movement that makes the Adam's apple rise
.
The man that the journalist from Le Figaro
is examining
at the Quimper conference is called Francis Heaulme.
He must answer on January 27, 1994 for the murder of Aline Pérès, a 49-year-old caregiver, stabbed on the beach in Brest five years earlier.
“All the difficulty of this trial became apparent in the morning,” notes Marie-Amélie Lombard.
Tried for one murder, the accused is indicted for five others and suspected of several unsolved crimes
.
The serial killer is nicknamed
“the backpacker of crime”
.
Sentenced two days later to 20 years in prison, with a two-thirds security period, Heaulme benefited from slight mitigating circumstances linked to his particularly sordid childhood.
But this is only the first trial.
He will be convicted of ten other homicides, committed between 1984 and 1992, including the double murder in Montigny-lès-Metz.
In October 2023, he was indicted for a
“cold case”
from 1989.
By our journalist Camille Lestienne
.
On the agenda
Monday January 29
: trial of Félix Biancamaria before the Marseille criminal court for the theft of archaeological treasures in Lava Bay.
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Wednesday January 31
: trial before the Toulouse criminal court of two men suspected of having regularly hit cyclists.
For eight months, the gendarmes tracked a mysterious vehicle which deliberately targeted cyclists...
“The passenger's right hand comes out of the window and comes to push me.
I finished my race in the ditch
,” testified one victim, who was prescribed 25 days of ITT.
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Friday February 2
: verdict in the trial of Shamran Mehmood Raja, accused of having killed Sandra in a Franprix in 2019.
Friday February 2
: trial of a protester, before the Paris Court of Appeal, for having attacked a firefighter on May 1, 2022.
To read
When we talk about Marseille, it is difficult not to think of its legal cases, its organized crime and its emblematic thugs.
These historical figures can be found in “
Settlements of accounts in Marseille, a history of violence in the Phocaean city”
, a work by Denis Trossero published on January 25 by Mareuil editions.
The journalist, former head of the police-justice service of
La Provence
and specialist in Marseille legal affairs, rigorously depicts the context of violence in which the Marseille city has been mired for many years.
By our journalist Nicolas Farmine.
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Have a nice week !
Guillaume Poingt, news journalist at Le
Figaro
.