Why was Alicia killed at her home in Beussent?
Two days after the indictment of Nicolas H. for the murder of his 31-year-old partner in Pas-de-Calais, questions remain about the motive of this thirty-year-old who claimed to have acted out of love for another woman, which turned out to be fictitious.
This man born in 1994, indicted on Wednesday, "only understood on the second day of his police custody", Tuesday, the seriousness of the facts with which he is accused, the premeditated murder of his partner, for which he faces 30 years in prison, said Fabienne Roy-Nansion, his lawyer.
It was also on Tuesday that he understood that the woman with whom he had established an online relationship did not exist, "because the gendarmes told him so", aided by a file of more than 40 cm of thickness, adds the lawyer.
The suspect “does not understand” his action
“He wonders about what could have happened in his mind, he does not understand” what pushed him to kill his partner, assures Me Roy-Nansion.
She describes a “kind, well-liked boy, who spends his time in the open air, hunting, doing crafts, playing football” and who had “never been violent towards anyone”.
He’s “a knockout kid standing up,” who “realizes the horror of it,” she adds.
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The suspect and the victim gave the image of a couple in love.
He, born in 1994, municipal technical agent, she, born in 1995, nurse in a nursing home, had planned to get married, according to the Boulogne-sur-Mer public prosecutor's office.
On the profiles in their name on Facebook, two photos of the couple, head to head - he notably shares photos of hunting and cars, she of clothes.
Killed with knives and hammers
But on the morning of January 28, the young woman was discovered dead at the couple's home in Beussent, a village near Le Touquet.
According to information from Le Parisien, the victim received knife and hammer blows.
His companion, indicted on Wednesday for murder and imprisoned, spontaneously declared before the investigating judge to regret his action, according to the prosecutor of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Guirec Le Bras.
He was previously "in something which, on a psychological level, was completely messed up", his lawyer, Fabienne Roy-Nansion, told AFP on Thursday.
From now on, “he realizes the horror of the thing”.
“He ruined everyone’s lives, including his own,” laments the lawyer.
On the morning of the incident, the young man himself warned the gendarmes, saying he had discovered the body of his partner on his way back from the bakery, and putting forward the theory of a burglary which had gone wrong, pointing to the disappearance of a piggy bank.
Many elements did not support this hypothesis, and he was taken into police custody on March 11.
He then admitted to having killed his partner by premeditating his act “to enable an emotional relationship that he had on the Internet to materialize” according to the prosecutor.
He had sent 2200 euros to Ivory Coast
According to information from Le Parisien, her interlocutor presented herself on Facebook under the profile of “Béatrice Leroux, commercente (sic) in Brest”.
This virtual lover turned out to be a fictional character created by a feelings scammer.
According to information communicated by the prosecution on Wednesday, the man had paid 2,200 euros to this crook, “located according to the first investigations in Ivory Coast”.
Romantic fraud consists of arousing feelings in a person, with whom exchanges take place only online, to extract money from them.
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Criminal groups based in West Africa specialize in Internet scams, including romance scams.
On average, a feminicide occurs every three days in France.
In 2023, the Ministry of Justice counted 94.