It was only classmates, friends, lovers ... Their relationship fell into total horror this Monday afternoon.
A 15-year-old teenager, like his girlfriend of the same age, was indicted on Wednesday evening for the murder of Alisha, 14.
Nothing a priori could suggest such a passage to the act, according to the lawyer of the young man.
"I am particularly amazed that the teenager I saw was able to commit the facts he recounts," says Franck Berton.
Something had to happen for it to come to this.
It is not possible otherwise.
It will be the object of the judicial investigation and the trial to try to understand it.
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"We didn't want to kill her, we don't understand"
In front of the police, the young man admitted the facts.
“He did not shirk his responsibility to the police.
He says it all.
The blows, the glove… He explains that she is still breathing when they throw her into the water.
He says they think she's going to swim.
He cannot explain his gesture, insists his advice.
The prosecutor cannot say he has no remorse.
It is a 15-year-old teenager who was in tears by my side before the examining magistrate, then before the judge of freedoms.
He said to me:
We didn't want that.
We didn't want to kill her.
We don't understand.
It is not possible.
"
The lawyer evokes "a rivalry between the two girls [for the young man] which has been exacerbated from week to week.
"" In September, Alisha and this teenager had a relationship for a week or two.
Then the latter formed a relationship with the other teenager for three or four months.
He is head over heels in love, it is his first sexual relationship.
The two girls were the best friends in the world.
This resulted in a completely tumultuous relationship between the three.
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So why this outburst of violence on the part of this teenager?
“He is described by the educational services as shy, even a little homey.
He has very few friends in and outside college.
He has a passion for computers and graphics.
He can spend hours on his computer to work.
He does not play.
Her father died several years ago.
This was a major shock for him, ”continues Me Franck Berton.
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In the lower part of Argenteuil, in the Orgemont-Volembert district where he lives, the 15-year-old boy was perceived as "a little one from the district", "who is not in the stories, or a disturbed child, with a criminal record. ".
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“He was in his bubble,” said a neighbor.
He would have spent his teenage years immersed in computers - and even set up his own machine with parts - video games and rap music videos.
He wouldn't have looked like a threatening young man anyway.
“With a look, we made him flee, continues the young adult.
I would have broken her hand if I squeezed it too tightly.
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"He was no longer going to class"
For “five or six months”, the young defendant often went to the boy's home, where he lived with his mother and his sister who, according to this resident, has provided for the needs of the family since the father's death.
“They seemed to be accomplices, like a normal couple.
But he was in the grip of his girlfriend.
Even his mother couldn't talk to him anymore.
"
"He wasn't going to class anymore like she wasn't going either.
Her mother told her to go to school, too, ”continues the neighbor.
What a student at his school confirms: he was a dropout.
Already, after his exclusion from college for absenteeism, his mother had referred him to the third class of this free private vocational school for better monitoring.
“His mother is shocked at his son, the girlfriend and what he has been able to do.
It is outdated.
She always wanted the best for him and did the maximum, even when it was not easy ”, continues this neighbor.