He was in a state which he still seems unable to explain. The Loiret assize court sentenced a 23-year-old man to 11 years of criminal imprisonment on Thursday, who was filmed in 2018 beating another man to death with alcohol.
This sentence, pronounced after two days of hearing, is almost in accordance with the requisitions of general counsel Laura Heurtebise, who claimed twelve years of confinement.
"He raped the victim until death ensued. It was not two men who fought. It is a man who beat another to death, ”insisted the representative of the public prosecutor.
A very alcoholic evening
Under what circumstances did Marcel Da Silva Canto come to kill his victim, 38, on April 19, 2018 in an apartment in Bonny-sur-Loire, in the Loiret?
The explanations given by the applicant suggested that, during a very alcoholic evening, an argument broke out between the two men. The victim is said to have questioned the loyalty of his partner.
The only witness to the episode of violence that followed, the partner of the victim died in May, preventing any confrontation of the versions at the hearing.
The accused was little discreet about the unleashing of violence that he wanted to film with his laptop, in order to publish the videos on social networks. The court could see him hilarious and singing, facing a man on the ground, his face bloody.
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"I don't understand why I am in this state that evening," said the young man, who himself called for help. He then told them, "I broke it. I blooded him. I farted him all! "