Leaning against the wooden facade, a customer of the McDonald's in Pont-à-Mousson puffs on her cigarette.
Pensive, she abandons her gaze on the deserted departmental road which crosses the small town of Meurthe-et-Moselle.
On the other side of the road, in the darkness of the night, a shaky figure approaches.
A naked and bloodied man appears under the halo of a street lamp.
Looking haggard, he held his right hand against him
“severed from the middle of the fingers to the wrist”
, the witness, still in shock, would later describe to the investigators.
Lying on the ground, almost unconscious, the victim with multiple gaping wounds whispers to the fast-food customers who came to help him:
“They’re crazy!”
Four years later, Adrien H. retains the physical and psychological scars of the violent attack he suffered but says he is ready to
“confront the one who wanted to end his life”
, tells Le
Figaro
his lawyer, Me Alexandre Bouthier .
The trial for
“attempted assassination”
opens this Monday at the Nancy Assizes.
In the accused box, Alexandre P., 30 years old, will appear alone.
His girlfriend Cloé T., who was also to be expelled for these facts, committed suicide in her cell at the Epinal remand center on May 2, 2021.
“The morbid, the gory, the bloody”
In 2020, Cloé T. was 16 years old when she met Adrien H., 19 years old, on the Badoo dating site.
The teenager with a gothic and eccentric style, attracted by
“the morbid, the gory, the bloody”
, in the words of her mother, multiplies the conquests.
While she regularly meets Adrien H. for sexual relations, she begins a romantic relationship with Alexandre P., ten years her senior, met…
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