Rape and murder of Angélique: life imprisonment required against David Ramault – Franceinfo

“Angelique is a little sun, a wonderful little girl. Happy, generous. They told me I don’t know how many times: when there was a birthday in class, she was the only one not to open her packet of candy to be able to share with Anaïs and her parents. She was a cuddly little girl, still very childish, who had grown up a little slower. “ It was with these words that Audrey Jankielewicz, the lawyer for the Six family, began her argument.

“He gets up, and he leaves to take away our little sun”

At the end of the third day of the trial of David Ramault for the rape and murder of the young Angélique Six, 12 years old, the magistrate did not return to the sordid details, nor even a lot to David Ramault himself. She especially wanted to talk about a family united in pain, the one that squeezes all day on the bench of civil parties. A family where little Angélique had been ardently desired, then adored.

“On April 25, our little sun goes to the park. It’s a bit like her garden, they live in an apartment and you can see her from the kitchen window. She comes home every hour: it is the rule that she does. It is 4:00 pm, she comes home, takes a last snack, leaves a last word. She is going to play one last time in her park. The town of Wambrechies has renamed it Angelique Park, it is her park forever. At the same time, David Ramault, who got up, takes two tablets to bandage, a little beer, and he leaves to take away our little sun. “

During the trial, the experts but also the lawyers of the civil parties underlined the risk of recidivism presented by David Ramault. Built around a perverse personality, he lacks empathy. This new case is proof of this, after his conviction in 1996. “I wish they were a little better, concluded Me Jankielewicz by pointing to Angélique’s relatives, and I know you can help them. I ask you to take the measure of horror, of atrocity, of perpetual pain. You won’t bring Angelique back, they know that, we haven’t heard them cry for revenge. But they want Angelique to be Daniel Ramault’s fifth and last victim. On April 25, at Angelique’s grave, they will be able to tell her that it is over. “

“Drive” Where “great criminal maturity”?

This morning of November 19, the indictment of the Advocate General largely questioned the scenario of destructive drive to which David Ramault clings, speaking conversely of “operating mode”. She believes that Angelique was targeted, David Ramault having noticed in previous auditions that she was “often without his parents” in this Wambrechies park.

The portrait of Angélique, carried by Corinne Gilliers, Angelique’s mother, rests on the office of the Advocate General for this last day of the trial. “He crossed a line difficult to imagine, which would have been according to him only an impulse which was imposed on him, but nevertheless he made a choice posed and considered. (…) He was always conscious of the gravity of the act he was going to commit, by preparing the capture scenario for his victim, by taking her to his home. “

? “The idea is to bring her home to have sex”.

Day 2 of David Ramault’s trial: investigators and forensic pathologists have followed one another to recount, minute by minute, the ordeal suffered by the teenager on Wednesday April 25, 2018.https://t.co/WuWKTQZF1R

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Carole Etienne also pointed to another inconsistency in David Ramault’s speech. “If his arrest was a relief, why did he care to make the evidence disappear? Why did he organize the disappearance of the body so meticulously? (…) The truth is unbearable, more unbearable than what it is. said Mr Ramault. And he was planning to live with it, to forget, to be silent. He is in a posture, a manipulation, a partition of himself. (…) His main concern after his crime was to resume a normal life. “

She returned at length to a multitude of details of the ordeal inflicted on Angélique, which show, according to her, that the accused maintained a trap around his victim, without ever varying from his goal. And the forensic pathologist’s findings, which suggest that David Ramault may not have said everything about the young girl’s martyrdom. “Yesterday, he gave us a minute of truth: yes, he looked at it. He wanted to have it in front of him. It was he who turned it around. And he resumed his work, without remorse.”

Life imprisonment required

“How can we not see in all these elements a great criminal maturity?” questions the general counsel, who believes that David Ramault remains an individual “dangerous”, noting the disturbing similarities between the facts judged by the Assize Court and the rape of a minor which earned him his first conviction in 1996. The practices imposed are the same, as is the scenario of the drive.

“Mr Ramault has no mental illness, he has no psychiatric pathology. But he presents serious psycho-sexual disorders (…) and today, he has not settled anything. He offers us a facade of regret without remorse “ finally declared Carole Etienne, who asked the jurors to find him guilty, “for the family of Lilique”. The Advocate General confessed that she had no hope concerning the David Ramault case, and therefore requested life imprisonment, accompanied by an irreducible period of imprisonment during which no measures to improve the penalty will not be possible.

“I therefore ask you, by special decision, to extend the security period to 30 years”. In view of the probability of recurrence and the disorders presented by David Ramault, Carole Etienne asked the jurors to provide for a preliminary re-examination by the district safety measures commission before any possible measure.

“Whatever we say, Ramault is our sembable” : defense pleads humanity

Cornered by the horror of the crime, defense lawyer, Me Demey, did not challenge the requisition for life imprisonment, but requested a reduced security period. “I didn’t sleep, I looked for what I was going to say again, and I thought of Angelique. In my file, there are pictures that are terrible, those of her little lifeless body. morgue, I wondered what I was doing there. Does Mr. Ramault really have the right to a defense? ” remembered the lawyer, who was assigned to duty.

“I know that some want to suppress it, think it, say it. Others simply think it. But in this perverse inclination, they still belong to the human race. Whatever one says, Ramault is our similar. cruelty only attracts cruelty, hatred only brings hatred ” continued Me Demey.

The magistrate recalled the deep troubles of the accused. ? “The crime is atrocious, the criminal is not mad. But without a shadow of a doubt, the accused is ill, mentally ill, with a severe personality pathology (…) He is experiencing suffering that the we don’t want to hear it, because it is nothing compared to the suffering he inflicted on his victim. ” He also drew the attention of the jurors to the cooperation shown by David Ramault as soon as he was arrested, while no evidence had yet been examined.

“My only hope, if the voice of the defense makes a little bit of sense, is that in the name of the commitment to heal yourself, you leave at the end of the tunnel of confinement a little light.” The verdict is expected to be delivered at around 3 p.m. on November 19.