Twenty years ago, the assassination of Alice by a high school student fascinated by "Scream"

• On June 3, 2002, a 15-year-old girl died of 42 stab wounds in a square in the town of Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire.

• The author of the facts was a high school friend who had premeditated his gesture by fascination for the film

  Scream

  .

• He was sentenced to 22 years, then 25 years on appeal, of criminal imprisonment.

The worldwide release of

(this Wednesday in France), eleven years after the last episode, is an event for fans of the famous horror film for teenagers. In Nantes, this film news above all awakens the memory of a terrible affair: that of the assassination of Alice Beaupère, 15, by a high school student fascinated by

. It was June 3, 2002 in Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire. The young woman had been stabbed 42 times, at the end of the afternoon, in a square which now bears her name.

Twenty years later, the former mayor of this quiet commune in the Nantes suburbs has forgotten nothing.

“I feel like it happened yesterday, says Joël Guerriau, now a senator (UDI).

We cannot conceal such an abominable drama, it is so heavy.

I remember exactly the moments, the places, the infinite pain of the parents whom I had accompanied to the gendarmerie.

The release of this film awakens a lot of things in me.

It must be the same for many people.

It's still a trauma.

"

A mask, a knife and a list of victims

Before dying, Alice Beaupère had had the strength to reveal to a local resident who came to help her the name of her attacker, a 17-year-old friend from the neighborhood. Arrested at his parents' home, this young man unknown to the police had confessed to the facts and their premeditation, explaining that he wanted to "kill someone". To the gendarmes, he had confided his fascination for the saga of director Wes Craven, of which he had watched the first three episodes on a loop. A mask, gloves and a knife identical to those of

had been found in his home in a bag. "He didn't realize what he was doing. He is in a virtual world, as if he were still in his film, ”was surprised an interviewer with Le

.

“The killer was just a kid. And the film was his only motive. He had compiled a list of teenage girls to attack. Alice was only to be the third. It was unimaginable,” recalls Joël Guerriau. "We don't understand what our son did. To learn that he could have been violent towards Alice when they were friends, it is inconceivable “, had at the time entrusted the mother of the accused to France 2.

However, the psychiatric expert reports revealed neither mental illness nor the abolition of discernment at the time of the act.

Judged in April 2004 by the Assize Court of Loire-Atlantique, the pupil of the Bourdonnières high school was sentenced to twenty-two years' imprisonment for murder.

On appeal, in November 2004, his sentence was increased to 25 years in prison, despite the reiteration of remorse expressed belatedly.

The excuse of minority was not accepted.

The senator wants the film banned

Following the case, which had moved throughout France, several voices were raised to demand a tougher ban on access to violent films for minors.

Especially since other attacks bearing the influence of

had occurred.

“This film is a wave of gratuitous violence, the former mayor is indignant today.

When you are young, you can be very easily influenced, you can confuse reality.

We must act against this.

"

He explains that he asked Mc Donald's, a few years after the tragedy, to “withdraw an advertising campaign using the character of

She

had accepted”.

Joël Guerriau would now like the film Scream to be banned.

“We should not allow it to come out, if only in memory of Alice Beaupère,” insists the senator.

The parents of the victim have created an association acting for the prevention of violence among young people.

Solicited by

via their lawyer, they no longer wish to speak on the case today.

The former high school student, meanwhile, would no longer be incarcerated, having been released on parole with follow-up.

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