"I am a miracle worker" assures Paul * as he tells his story in front of the assizes in Evry.

Faced with the main accused, Saïd Bogota, he explains how he found himself in "a state of complete shock", with "a huge hole in the head" and blood "dripping down his face".

If he had confessed to having committed violence against Paul, Saïd Bogota for the first time admitted having wanted to kill him in anger, while he was fleeing.

On Wednesday, the main defendant admitted “not being able to look [oneself] in a mirror anymore.

I find myself ugly - a monster - for what I have done ”.

Aggression motivated by romantic jealousy

The witnesses, police officers, doctor and especially the victim returned on these hours of December 2018. In the middle of the afternoon, a dumbfounded inhabitant of the village of Saint-Chéron [Essonne], takes care of a young man of 17 years "in good condition. of extreme suffering ”, reports a police officer quickly arrived on the scene.

Paul managed to escape men, including the alleged sponsor, actor Saïd Bogota, tried since Monday for having ordered and participated in his kidnapping, kidnapping and assassination attempt, due to jealousy in love.

At the stand, another policewoman said she was "shocked" when she saw this teenager, "curled up on himself, […] [who] is really losing a lot of blood".

"I'm afraid he will die."

The Samu doctor on site noted a "huge hole in the head", burns to the body and respiratory tract, necrotic fingers.

The vital prognosis being engaged, it plunges the victim into an artificial coma.

"Now that he has seen my face, he must be finished"

Courteous, his voice calm but sometimes twisting with emotion, Paul unwinds the thread of the story, standing at the bar, a few meters from the accused. At one party, he meets Marion *, who assures him "that she is no longer in a relationship". "The relationship was going well and in any case, I did not learn of the existence of Mr. [Bogota, Marion's former companion]," says Paul. A few weeks later, the apprentice mechanic was kidnapped near his workplace. Among his kidnappers, he recognizes the actor of "Taxi 5" or "Pattaya".

The captive receives "slaps and slaps" in the car and testifies to the state of drunkenness of the actor: "I have never been so drunk as he was, it was shocking". The two men take him to a cellar, joined by a third, and "spray [him] with tear gas, a lot, a lot. When he discovers an equivocal message from Marion on Paul's phone, Saïd Bogota "has gone mad". He returns with a bottle of hydrochloric acid. Paul then receives toxic product in the face and ingests it. "I couldn't breathe, I was blind," the young man panics. A neighbor surprised by the noise, he is transported to a field where he receives two flash ball shots in the head and temporarily loses consciousness.

"I did not know that a human ..." Paul cannot finish his sentence, but remembers that Saïd Bogota "looked him in the eyes" and that he had hit him with rage on the head with an adjustable wrench. , about twenty blows according to him. Before being sprayed with gasoline and then set on fire, the teenager hears Saïd Bogota getting angry: "Now that he has seen my face, he must be finished". Managing to take off his flaming clothes, Paul runs “with all his might” and takes refuge with a local woman, whom he asks “to stay close to [him], to hold [him] hand”.

For the medical examiner, Charles Zeboulon, Paul “was right to present himself as miraculous because if he had not removed his clothes, he would have burned”.

When he came to see him at the hospital, a friend "stepped back, it was so inhuman", he recalls, crying.

Today, the young man retains significant physical and psychological consequences.

“I hope that justice will manage to put the maximum penalty because it was a murder.

If this lady [the neighbor] hadn't been there, I would have died ”.

The verdict is expected Tuesday.

* First names have been changed

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