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  • Six homeless people are tried from this Monday by the Assize Court of Deux-Sèvres for murder, rape, torture and act of barbarism on former companions in 2016.

  • Some victims had been found dismembered by investigators.

  • The cruelty of the facts led to the establishment of a psychological cell during the trial for civil parties and jurors.

It is an extraordinary trial which opens this Monday for three weeks before the Assize Court of Deux-Sèvres, in Niort.

Six homeless people appear for murder, rape, torture and act of barbarism on four former companions between April and July 2016. In this trial which could be held behind closed doors because of acts of torture and barbarism, the defendants risk criminal imprisonment. perpetuity.

This trial is also exceptional by the cruelty of the facts, against a background of alcohol and debt.

It all started in the spring of 2016 when a homeless man came to the Nantes police station in remorse.

He describes the night of horror he experienced 10 days earlier.

He says that with four other homeless people he killed one of their companions.

The facts are sordid: punches, electric guitar blows, shovel blows ... The victim suffered the worst abuse.

He was notably raped with a bottle of wine.

Psychological help for civil parties and jurors

On the instructions of the SDF, the investigators found a mutilated body in the apartment, presenting with 70 wounds, including 18 to the skull, explains BFM.

But they are not at the end of their sentence since in the process, they find two other dismembered bodies.

The victims are the tenant of the apartment and an 18-year-old.

There are also traces of rape here.

Finally, the investigators discover a last body in a state of decomposition in a cellar of Niort.

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Finally, four homeless admit the facts before two others are arrested for participating in one of the murders.

They are mostly known to the police.

Faced with such barbaric acts, psychological care for civil parties and jurors has been put in place, specifies France Bleu Poitou.

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