A 21-year-old young man was charged and imprisoned on Friday, November 8, for the murder in Doubs of a 59-year-old cook due to his homosexuality, the Besançon prosecutor announced.
He was accused of “aggravated intentional homicide, committed due to the sexual orientation of the victim”announced prosecutor Étienne Manteaux during a press conference. He faces life in prison.
On Thursday, shortly after midnight, witnesses warned gendarmes that a man who was on the ground was being beaten in Morteau, a town near the Swiss border. Emergency services quickly responded to the scene and confirmed the death of the 59-year-old victim.
Police then saw an individual nearby whose shoes were stained with blood. The 21-year-old man admits kicking the victim, particularly in the head, and then returning home to change and take off his blood-stained pants, before returning to the scene.
“Extreme outbreak of violence”
The two men had spent part of the evening drinking in a bar. According to witnesses, the cook had made advances to the young man. Investigators from the Pontarlier investigation brigade found three videos on the suspect’s phone that he himself filmed during the attack, before sending them to his acquaintances: “In the first scene the victim is sitting with a bloody face; in the second, the victim lies on the ground, still making sounds; The third one no longer makes any sound »the prosecutor confided. The author comments on his action in the videos, before insulting the man on the ground.
He admitted during his hearings that “It was the sexual propositions that were made to him that made him angry”Mr. Manteaux specified. “The victim’s mother, his only family, described that her son had never had a stable emotional relationship. “She is overwhelmed.”he confided.
Videos show images. “untenable”, “an extreme outbreak of violence, beatings”according to Damien Mathieu, second in command of the Doubs gendarmerie group.
The suspect had consumed alcohol and cannabis at the time of the incident. Already convicted of gun violence, he was to be tried for other acts of violence in November.
