On the Ille-et-Vilaine departmental prison court docket,
They’re two brothers aged 60 and 65 within the dock, one incarcerated and the opposite underneath judicial supervision. Their youngest youngster is seated simply behind on that of the civil events. And a final one, the second of the siblings, who’s lacking this Monday earlier than the Ille-et-Vilaine departmental prison court docket in Rennes. Absent because killed by his two brothers on the evening of January 3 to 4, 2023 in Cancale, close to Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine). On the day of the tragedy, the three males met on the household dwelling to arrange the funeral of their father, who had died a couple of days earlier. Everybody had initially gone about their enterprise, one going to go to their mom on the nursing dwelling, the opposite going to the crematorium and the final burying himself in paperwork.
Till aperitif time on the finish of the day when the three brothers, who reside far aside, begin consuming alcohol. Numerous alcohol even with pastis, whiskey. Then wine on the desk and after the meal Armagnac and brandy. The evening is effectively superior when Thierry T. decides to depart the outdated fisherman’s home to throw the empty bottles in an adjoining room and smoke a cigarette. Staying inside, Eric and Laurent T., knocked out by drink, then noticed “an intruder” enter the home. Panicked, they then started to hit him violently “to search out out who it’s”, in line with the statements of one of many two brothers.
“There was blood as much as the ceiling”
A deluge of punches and kicks then fell on the “stranger”, Laurent T. having even admitted “relentlessness on his half”. Considering that he had “maybe accomplished one thing silly”, he then glided by automotive to the Cancale gendarmerie, alerting the obligation officer that an “unknown particular person” had entered their dwelling and was mendacity on the bottom, unconscious. A bit earlier than 3 a.m., firefighters arrived on the scene and found a real horror scene. With a near-dying man mendacity on the kitchen ground, mendacity in a pool of blood.
“There have been them all over the place within the room, on the curtains, the partitions,” the gendarme who led the investigation testified on the bar. It was the primary time in my twenty-year profession that I noticed blood all the way in which to the ceiling. »Transferred to Rennes College Hospital with a essential prognosis, the sufferer died a couple of hours later, the post-mortem revealing a number of trauma. “Encephalic, thoracic and belly”, lists President Juliette Sauvez.
The police reveal the id of the sufferer to them
On the crime scene, the 2 brothers perceive nothing of what’s occurring earlier than their eyes. Till the police reveal to them the unthinkable. Particularly that the intruder they beat to dying was their brother with whom that they had simply spent the night. In police custody, they declare “to not have acknowledged him”, one of many two brothers evoking “a hallucinatory phenomenon” to attempt to clarify the inexplicable. The investigators initially lean in direction of a villainous motive, a Machiavellian plan between brothers against the backdrop of heritage. A false lead. “There was no cash within the dad and mom’ account so the monetary motive didn’t maintain,” stated the gendarme on the stand.
Between a number of the brothers, tensions had arisen over time and relations had additional deteriorated after the dying of the daddy over caring for the mom. However no bodily violence had damaged out between them. How then can we clarify such a tragedy? “A black gap”, as Laurent T. confided to a psychiatrist. “It was like a hallucination,” he stated on the stand. I had dozed off as a result of I used to be very drunk and I wakened abruptly as a result of I noticed a man within the hallway. I used to be stunned as a result of I did not acknowledge my brother, I at all times stated he was a stranger and I jumped on him. »
“A distortion of perceptions” with alcohol
The psychiatrist explains to the court docket that “ alcoholic intoxication can result in a distortion of perceptions. “And that’s maybe the reason for why he didn’t acknowledge his brother when he got here dwelling,” she believes. Similar amnesia for Eric who, having medical issues, had a blackout throughout the night and fell asleep. “In no case did I strike and I had no purpose to take action,” he says when questioned.
His co-accused admits to “having participated within the violence”, admitting to the punches however not the kicks. “Ashamed and responsible” of getting “destroyed” his household, Laurent expects loads from this trial. With the will to “specific your self and attempt to perceive the reality”. The proceedings are anticipated to proceed till Wednesday in court docket. The 2 brothers face the utmost penalty of twenty years of prison imprisonment.
