Trial of the murder of “The Immortal” in Toulouse: the accused designated by “the rumor”
Ouisam Boujoual, 31, has been on trial since Tuesday for the 2018 murder of “The Immortal” in Toulouse. The verdict is expected on Friday. The defense will plead acquittal.
Is “the rumor” at the origin of the comparison, since Tuesday, in front of the assizes of Haute-Garonne, of Ouisam Bouajal, 31 years old? He was tried for the murder on July 3, 2018, in the Reynerie district of Abdelkrim Koulel, known as “The Immortal”.
This Thursday, a police officer who worked on the Boujoual telephony was grilled. He became interested in the accused in July 2018. “The rumor pointed to him, recalls the investigator. His phone line appears between 10:13 p.m. and 11:09 p.m. on the crime scene coverage area.” “The Immortal” was killed shortly before 11 p.m. that evening. Ouisam Boujoual has never denied being nearby. He says he was having dinner at Place Abbal 300 meters away, enough to have his phone terminated. “You are able to fix the individual’s laptop but it is in no way a GPS point”, underlines Me Dupoux.
Me Martial regrets: “I see that you are working on him based on information. Video tapes are seized but those concerning Abbal Square have not been preserved…”
Ouisam Boujoual questions the officer himself: “On my two telephones are there messages, something concerning Koulel? “I have no elements in this direction”, agrees the policeman.
Mes Morgane Dupoux, Edouard Martial and Hugues Vigier filed conclusions so that they be recorded in the procedure the statements of a witness at the hearing on Wednesday. The latter explained, about a confrontation where he was supposed to incriminate, Boujoual: “That day, I went into the office of the investigating judge. When I said I was not going to confirm, she told me to go back”. The court ruled that this defense claim was inadmissible.
The verdict is expected this Friday after the pleading of Me Julien Deviers for the Koulel family, the indictment of the Advocate General and the defense pleadings.