The trial of Raphael Gamez, the father of the deceased baby, opens Monday, November 5 before the Assize Court of Douai. The 28-year-old accused is on trial for "violence resulting in death without intent to give". The verdict is expected Wednesday.

Raphael Gamez is suspected of having beaten to death, in 2016 in Denain in the North in the Hauts-de-France, his six-month-old baby, Djason, for "he stops crying" while he was playing at the console. His trial opens Monday before the Assize Court of Douai.

He was playing at "Call of duty"

On the night of January 29 to 30, 2016, when the mother of Djason found his inanimate child in his bed, in Denain, near Valenciennes, Raphael Gamez explains that it is the dog that "jumped on his chest" , according to the instruction. But the autopsy is formal: the infant died as a result of blows that could not have been caused by the dog.

The 28-year-old accused, tried for "violence causing death without intent to give" , is then placed in police custody. And tells the investigators: while he was playing "Call of duty" on his console, "the little Djason kept crying" . And to continue: "Me, I got excited about the video game. I got close to him to find out why he was crying. The closer I got to him, the more he cried [...] That's where I typed him ... I just wanted him to stop crying . "

"Impulsive, sometimes aggressive"

Raphael Gamez admits to having punched several times on the child's chest. The investigation also shows a heated argument between the accused and the infant's mother shortly before the fact: "She wanted to talk to me, but I did not listen to her, so she turned off the Playstation, I got up and I pushed her against the wall [...] I was out of myself, " said Gamez to the police. The young woman then left the house to look for tobacco and it was on her return that she found the child inanimate.

The accused, who grew up in Denain with his adoptive parents, left the school system at age 15 without a diploma and was unemployed at the time. According to the investigation, he regularly consumes cannabis and his criminal record mentions 13 convictions, particularly for robbery and willful degradation.

Experts describe him as "impulsive" , "sometimes aggressive" , "egocentric" and "quickly annoyed" . The verdict is expected Wednesday, November 7th.