Tuesday, February 7, 2023, the trial of Benjamin C. opened. The 40-year-old is accused of stabbing a 21-year-old student to death in May 2020.
It is a tragic story that took place on May 16, 2020. On that day and while France is deconfined for five days, Romane invites friends to her apartment in the 3rd arrondissement of Lyon. Indeed, it has been two months since the optical BTS student has not seen her friends. During the evening, they chat and play cards, with Some music in the background.
However, the evening will know a tragic turn a little before midnight. Benjamin C. the upstairs neighbor rings at her door insistently and she goes to open it. According The ParisianRomane’s friends hear “You’re crazy“, before seeing her collapse to the ground and quickly bleed out. The 21-year-old received a stab in the groin. Hit in the femoral artery, she was rushed to the hospital where she dies two days later.
The neighbor wanted to finish his game of Scrabble in peace
According to a friend of Romane, his neighbor had the “blank stare” at the time of the murder and he had to hold up a bar stool in front of him to scare him away. Quickly contacted, the police intervened in the apartment of Benjamin C. and found him in front of his computer. Facing the police, he then explained “most calmly in the world“that he had stabbed his neighbor, because he was”exceeded” by the noise and wanted complete your game of Scrabble quietly online.
Tuesday, February 7, nearly two and a half years after Romane’s murder, the trial of the 41-year-old opened up. According to Me Léa Forest, the main suspect’s lawyer, her intention was not to kill the young woman. “He approached, but did not realize he had hurt someone” she told the Parisian referring to his client’s severe visual impairment. The verdict is expected on Thursday February 9 and the suspect faces up to 30 years of criminal imprisonment.