Toulouse: psychiatric expertise for the ultraviolent trio of Auterive, their trial postponed
At the request of Me Alexandre Martin, the three men who had kidnapped, beaten and humiliated one of their boyfriends in July in a garage in Auterive will be appraised. Their trial is reported, they are free pending trial.
How did three young boys barely 20 years old, hitherto stowed away, come to extreme violence in mid-July, in a garage in Auterive? This was the whole issue of the trial which was to be held at the start of the week as part of the immediate comparisons before the Toulouse criminal court.
Postponed for the first time, at the request of the defence, it was finally to be held but Me Alexandre Martin, the lawyer for the alleged leader of the group, asked that they be experts “to understand”.
“It’s one thing to judge quickly, it’s another thing to judge well, insists the lawyer. You have to understand the psyche of these kids without a locker. Because the stake is important as much as the ordeal they subjected to one of their acquaintances on Thursday July 14 in Auterive.
That day, the trio had ambushed their victim. Confident, she had gone to the appointment, in a garage where they tinker all four. As soon as he arrived, the young man had received a shower of beatings before being tied to a chair with adhesive tape.
Unable to move and defend himself, the victim faced the fury of his buddies for a very long time before he was able to exit the garage. But not to go home, the three boys will then load it into the trunk of a car. He is unaware of his destination and does not know what they want to do with him.
Left naked in a field
After an interminable journey, the furious ones open the trunk. To humiliate him, they put him in the middle of a field, completely naked. They leave, present him in shock.
Although he knows the identities of his executioners, the young man decides to keep quiet. He is terrified. After a fortnight, after many hesitations, he ended up going through the door of a police station to tell everything and free himself.
His beating and humiliation is said to be due to a debt around the vehicles that the four men take care of.
In charge of the investigation, the gendarmes of the research brigade of Villefranche-de-Lauragais and the community of brigades of Auterive quickly arrested the suspects who were placed in police custody.
For the second time, their trial is therefore reported, they are free, under judicial control pending the results of their expertise and their judgment in November. Until then, they are prohibited from coming into contact with the victim.