Toulouse: An intruder in his house: “I saw the sword that brushed against me”
Saturday morning, a young man found a stranger sleeping at the foot of his bed in his apartment in Toulouse. Once awakened, the intruder, armed with a saber, went on a rampage.
“I saw the saber that brushes against me”. Still in shock, Jérémy* recounts with emotion his Saturday morning at his home, Faubourg Bonnefoy in Toulouse. “Around 8 o’clock, I felt my quilt which was pulled down, explains the young man of 23 years. I thought my roommate had come home. I texted his copy but he was still with her.
The awakening is brutal. At the foot of his bed is a complete stranger. “I asked him, ‘What are you doing? You are at my house. You go away “. He answered me “No, we are going to fight”. Jeremy receives a shower of blows to the face. He takes fright and takes refuge in the bathroom. “There is no lock so I was back, leaning over to hold the door. I felt the blade of the saber on my ribs and near my head”.
Because the intruder has taken down a Japanese sword seized from the wall as decoration. Taking advantage of the movements of his attacker, Jérémy manages to take refuge with a neighbor and alerts the police.
When they arrive there, the apartment is devastated. Armed with the sword, the madman broke the hi-fi equipment, the television. He ripped open the walls and broke the bathroom mirror. The police found the katana planted above the victim’s headboard.
In the accommodation, a dragging shoe. The violent left the scene with a bare foot. An index which allows the police teams to have an eye and to challenge him around 9:30 a.m., in the street.
The man is completely drunk and makes incoherent remarks. He is taken in soberness to the central police station. When he can finally be auditioned, he doesn’t remember anything. The friends he came to Toulouse with this weekend have a better memory. Aperitif, restaurant, nightclub… then the argument too much with his girlfriend. The 24-year-old unpins and runs off. He will end up at his victim whose door is not locked.
About 1m85, blond hair and little blue shirt, the man with the saber compared this Monday before the criminal court. ” It’s a nightmare. It’s difficult. I don’t understand what happened. I haven’t lacked anything in my life, he simply expressed. I apologize “. His lawyer asked for time to prepare his defence. Until his trial, scheduled for early April, he has been released under judicial supervision. “I’m thinking of moving,” laments Jérémy. I don’t understand why he isn’t fired for attempted murder.”