On Thursday, a teenage girl was found stabbed to death near Mâcon. A news item that shakes the inhabitants of the small town of Clessé, in Saône-et-Loire. The assassin is her boyfriend, who confessed to the facts. On Friday, the boy explained in police custody that his gesture was not a sudden impulse following an argument, but that it was a premeditated act.
First there is this meeting, in the middle of the night, in secret from their parents, a habit for both of them, which does not arouse the young girl’s suspicion. There had been, a few hours earlier, this training in the handling of the knife, as he told the investigators.
A childhood of violence
A boy who, moreover, lived in an unstable family context, against a background of separation from his parents. A violent context too: several months ago, he had arrived at college with stitches on the top of his skull, a consequence, he then explained to his friends, of hammer blows given to him by his father. A resort to violence by a still very young teenager who questions the inhabitants like Julie, especially in a small, calm and prosperous village like Clessé.
“It’s scary because we think that it’s right near our home and that in the event of a conflict, something serious can happen to our children. It’s really abominable, at that age. , to hurt, I don’t understand, it’s a gesture that is not trivial, it takes a certain strength, it takes the process. If indeed, in the countryside, we have children who have enough hatred to make this kind of gesture, indeed, it is scary!
The boy was imprisoned Friday, in a prison for minors. For these facts, he faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.