The distress of Rudy's mother, a teenager killed in a settling of scores

• This Wednesday opened the third day of the trial for the murder of Rudy, a teenager killed in a settling of scores in Marseille in 2016.

• A day marked by the long and heartbreaking testimony of his mother, who recounted his descent into hell since the death of her son.

" It's inhumane. I do not understand. I am from the northern districts. I've never seen people do that to a child. The settling of scores is adults shooting each other. There, we sequester a child. They torture him. We take him to a place. They killed my son who was only fifteen. He didn't have puberty, my son. He didn't have the voice that had changed. He looked very young physically. K's words come out in a ceaseless stream, between two sobs. For nearly an hour, on this third day of trial before the Aix-en-Provence Assize Court, Rudy's mother, killed at the age of 15 in a settling of scores in 2016 in Marseille, recounts the ordeal she has been going through with her family for six years now.

The first concern, when she realizes that her son, who told her to hang out with his friends outside, does not come home.

A concern that grows when friends of Rudy report to him that, on the evening of the murder, the latter was apostrophed, then slipped away with “grown-ups”, while he was in a city in the northern districts of Marseille, late at night.

“My son, he's an easily influenced boy,” she describes.

He had a very difficult education.

"And to add:" Several times, I found him in the neighborhood.

I took him out of the neighborhood once.

I took him in my car and told his friends to leave my son alone.

"

"I want to tear my hair out"

The investigators will quickly discover that at the time of the facts, the young man was a small hand of the narcotics network of the city of Jean-Jaurès, in the 14th arrondissement. To the point of regularly missing lessons for "jobber", in the hope of buying a scooter, according to the statements of one of his friends at the hearing from Tarascon prison.

K. then recounts the violent denial when two plainclothes policemen come to find her to tell her the worst.

On November 18, 2016, a few hours after his mother reported his disappearance, Rudy's partially burned body was discovered on a hill, shot down presumably on his knees with his wrists tied.

"I'm banging on the walls," she remembers, sobbing as if reliving the scene in great detail.

I want to tear my hair, cut my veins with my teeth.

The police force me to the ground.

I scream.

I scream: "Where is my baby?"

I have his tube of cream, and I'm screaming, "I need to put on his cream. He has eczema on his legs."

"

"I want him to give me a kiss before leaving"

For the past few days, Rudy seemed particularly worried and agitated, to the point of having patches of it on his body. A concern that his mother put, wrongly, on the account of his school career. "After, I go down," she continues. I scream, "They took my baby from me! I want to see my baby." I want him to give me a kiss before he leaves. My baby, who had all dressed up as a Lacoste outfit that I bought for him on Sunday at Plan de Campagne! "

Rudy's older brother is invited to view the victim's body.

"I go to join him and I hear a scream from my son, K. collapses at the bar.

A scream that I never heard, from all his body.

There, I fall dry on the ground.

At that moment, I understand that I will no longer have my son.

Behind her, all dressed in black, the latter, a tall fellow dressed in a white jogging suit, burst into tears for several long minutes.

"I want to kill them but I don't have the strength"

But the mother of a family continues her implacable story, facing jurors who listen to her in religious silence, in this same flood of words interrupted by short sobs. She remembers "the smell of burning through the white coffin", the plea she makes to her husband, on the day of the funeral, to "join her son". The forties unvarnished confides having made several suicide attempts, seen four psychiatrists and having been prescribed heavy treatments to get to sleep. To believe his story with the tunes of descent into hell, his family life has shattered into a thousand pieces since that day in November 2016. His mother died of a dazzling cancer a few months after Rudy's death. The couple separated, and the last of the family, aged 10 at the time of the facts,is still traumatized by this murder.

As soon as the coffin is closed, however, the rumor quickly reaches K.'s ears: two "big boys" known to be involved in drug trafficking networks, and nicknamed "ZZ" and "Jimmy", are believed to be behind the murder. of his son. From that moment on, K., who says he ignores everything about how drug trafficking works, obsessively spends his days and nights investigating on social networks those who are presented to him as those responsible for drug trafficking. the death of her son. "I want to smash them, I want to kill them, but I don't have the strength," she says. And to add: "And there, I understand that my son, he was under the influence of the big ones. The mother remembers the incessant "phone calls" that Rudy received, according to her, to encourage him to take part in the drug trade.“He was being harassed, my son! "

"You have to be wary of everyone"

Fear also wins K., to the point of moving.

“My daughter tells me that there are cars with tinted windows passing by and slowing down under my window,” she says.

We enter the fourth dimension.

I tell my children to beware of everyone.

"

To his left, the supposed “ZZ” and “Jimmy”, Samir Zerouali and Khadim Thiam in the civil registry, listen to him, sometimes nodding their heads to express their disapproval.

Since the start of the procedure, the two defendants have proclaimed their innocence and claim to be in pre-trial detention "free of charge".

According to investigators, the motive for Rudy's murder would be that he may have given the go in settling accounts less than a month earlier in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, in the Plombières district of Marseille.

Charges against the teenager unfounded, according to these same investigators.

The verdict is expected this Friday.

Justice

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