From this Tuesday, the jurors of the assize court of Montpellier will have to decide on a sordid case. In September 2019, a fragile 19-year-old woman left her home in Châteauroux to join a 22-year-old man, met on the Internet who lived in Agde, in the Hérault.

But very quickly, her "lover" would have become her torturer, locking her in a closet. The young woman was allegedly tied up, regularly beaten and forced to eat cat excrement to "feed" herself. After 47 days of suffering, her torturer reportedly abandoned her in a ditch in Vias, leaving her for dead.

His body temperature had dropped to 22°C

It was a cyclist who discovered it in the early morning of November 2. He calls the fire department thinking he has found a dead body. But, despite her broken fractures, beatings, bones, noses and teeth, her body temperature that has dropped to 22 ° C, despite her skeletal appearance (she weighs only 31 kg), the young woman still lives. And will be saved in extremis while his heart stops beating when help arrives.

The main suspect, her brother, who allegedly participated in these acts of torture and helped to get rid of the young woman, as well as her mother, who would have attended these 47 days of hell without flinching, face life imprisonment. They are prosecuted for attempted murder, kidnapping, torture or barbarity for the sons, wilful failure to prevent a crime for the mother, who appears free. The verdict is expected on Friday.

  • Justice
  • Assize Court
  • Montpellier
  • Occitania
  • Languedoc-Roussillon
  • Agde
  • Chateauroux
  • Torture