"
I am a monster
": David Ramault asked forgiveness from the parents of Angélique, 12, raped and killed in 2018, on the first day of her trial before the North Assize Court which tried to surround this father. , repeat offender but without history for nearly 20 years.
At the opening of the trial of this drama which had aroused very strong emotion and relaunched the debate on the “
chemical castration
” of sex offenders, the father of the schoolgirl had to be evacuated from the room after feeling unwell.
He then joined his family that had come with a photo of the smooth-haired, smiling child.
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From his first speech, David Ramault, bald head, black sweater and overweight recognizes, in a weak voice, all the facts.
The former bus driver, identified thanks to the File of perpetrators of sexual or violent offenses where he appeared after a conviction for rape of a minor in 1996, explains having felt this day in April 2018 a "
sudden excitement for Angélique
" who was playing in a park.
In a few words, he describes the sexual violence he subjected her to and says he “
panicked
” and strangled her with his pants.
In police custody, he had spontaneously confessed to the kidnapping, rape and murder.
"Sorry for killing your daughter"
A little later, the accused cracks, questioned by his own father, who shouts to him about Angélique: "
She didn't have the right to live?"
".
“
I'm sorry I killed your daughter,
” “
I'm a monster,
” he sobs, addressing the child's family.
Head down, the accused had previously listened to the personality investigator retrace his childhood, marked by the abandonment by his mother, at two years old, then a feeling of second abandonment, at the age of seven, when his mother-in-law had a daughter .
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From the age of eight, he commits robbery after robbery, hampering a school career from which he will leave without a diploma, although intelligent according to the investigator.
To the latter, he described sexual touching he was said to have suffered as a child and beatings that his father allegedly inflicted on him, facts denied by his family, as well as a rape he allegedly suffered as a young man.
Sentenced in 1996 to nine years imprisonment for the rape of a minor of the same age as Angelique, he was released from prison in 2000, without medical follow-up, then married in 2002, before the birth of two sons.
For nearly 20 years, they gave the image of a united family.
"Who I was inside of me"
"
He took good care of his children,
" reports his half-sister, describing a "
nice
" man but to whom she never entrusted her daughter, because of his conviction. She also emphasizes
that he was doing
badly after the suicide of his brother in 2016. "
What I blame him is that knowing that he could commit acts like that, he does not follow up,
" insists - she, while associations for the defense of the rights of the child, civil parties, point out the flaws in the socio-judicial monitoring of sex offenders. President Sylvie Karas then probes at length her relationship to sexuality, making her evoke her "
compulsive masturbation
»And his fantasies of rape and submission, before asking him why he did not go to see a psychologist, when he was released from prison.
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“
I was ashamed to think about what I had done, to admit who I was deep inside. I thought I had solved my problem,
”says the accused. His ex-wife, who has shared his life for 18 years, but keeping a separate bedroom for the past few years, describes him as "
not at all concerned with sex
." "
It was a good person
", summarizes the one who started a procedure to change the name of her children and tried to file a civil action against him, which the justice refused. "
For him, it's difficult to admit how much he messed up everything, he actually had everything to be happy, it's a form of self-destruction,
" his lawyer, Eric Demey, commented to journalists.
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