The Assize Court of Haute-Garonne.

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What ordeal did Alicia, barely 14, go through one evening in April 2018 in an apartment in Beauzelle, near Toulouse?

His alleged murderer, a 22-year-old cook, sometimes described as a “pervert”, sometimes as a “nice” or “fragile” boy, has been appearing since Monday before the Haute-Garonne Assize Court for the rape and murder of the teenager.

On the night of the tragedy, Alicia spent the evening at the accused's house with another minor friend.

She did not call on time for her parents to pick her up.

The latter, worried, went to Alexandre Besse's apartment.

The latter told them that she had already left.

As it did not look like the teenager, relatives did not believe it and warned the gendarmes.

The accused gave the same answer to the soldiers who disembarked at his home.

But when they asked him to get up from his sofa bed, he hugged her legs.

In the trunk of the sofa bed, Alicia was found dying, an electric wire passed around her neck.

She died soon after.

Verdict expected this Wednesday

The accused, who had a history of sexual offenses, pleads the accident, the consensual sexual game that would have gone wrong, and then panic.

“Regardless of the denials of the accused, the trial can only lead to his guilt,” said Monday, during the first day of the trial, Jean-Baptiste Alary, who represents the godmother of the victim.

"Then the Court will rule on the voluntary nature or not of the gesture", he added.

“He denies having intentionally participated in the drama, he denies the rape and he denies the intentional homicide.

He said "I did not violate because there was consent", erotic asphyxiation, what was previously called the game of the headscarf, it is the drama of the accident ", pleads for his part Muriel Amar- Touboul, Alexandre Besse's lawyer.

The verdict is expected Wednesday.

The accused faces life imprisonment.

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