2024-03-03 18:16:00
Julien Grégoire lived in a modern building located on the outskirts of Mons. It is in this same place that the language teacher at Saint-Stanislas college was killed several times with a knife. Why was this 44-year-old man massacred by a student barely 18 years old? What happened? Here are some answers.
It all started when the teacher brought some young people back to his apartment following a scout party. According to his neighbors, the forty-year-old used to organize parties: “We didn’t know he was dead, we figured there was an argument and it had gone bad, with all the parties. But who he received, we never saw“, testifies a resident of the building.
What happened the night of the tragedy?
Thomas, the perpetrator of the murder, said the professor allegedly touched his private parts several times before straddling him. He pushes him away, takes a knife from the table and stabs him. According to our information, he did not stop there: he would have used other knives and would have stuck a pizza cutting wheel deep in his throat. In total, around twenty wounds were noted; a real relentlessness committed by a young man who was not known for acts of violence.
It’s a rush of blood, an impulse
“Sometimes, we take into account in court ordinary people who have no prior record, who are not known to the justice system, who have a calm and orderly life, and who can – under the influence of emotion – commit acts that they would not normally commit. It is a blood rush, an impulse that can lead them to inflict harm or, in extreme cases, to kill. This may be linked to alcohol consumption, as in this case, or to drug consumption which tends to disinhibit… But not necessarily. This might happen to anyone who cannot cope with emotional shock.“, advances Patrick Maricot, lawyer at the Brussels bar.
Still according to our information, Thomas, very surprised by the actions of the occupant of the premises, would have sent photos and made a video call to his girlfriend while his former teacher in his underwear massaged his feet.
According to his lawyer, Franck Discepoli, something happened that provoked the young man’s murderous madness. “Thomas found himself in a situation he did not expect and the file reveals that. There were totally inappropriate actions towards him, from someone of 44 years old towards a young man of 18 years old. And I think that was the trigger for something. It wasn’t just alcohol or euphoria or whatever that started it all… There must have been something that shocked him deeply.“, affirms the latter.
A hidden face?
Julien Grégoire was pastoral coordinator and active in the projects of the NGO Iles de Paix. Faced with this man who seems beyond reproach, the investigators of the Federal Police of Mons ask themselves a question: was Mr. Grégoire hiding something?
He tries to touch you
We met one of his former students. He would have been, just like his friends, sexually approached by the professor: “He often catches us around 14 years old. A beautiful relationship of trust begins to be established. He was a friend of my parents. Afterwards, he starts to go a little further. (…) You drink a lot with him, you’re drunk. And while you sleep, he tries to touch you“.
Currently, no complaints have been filed once morest the professor. Even if the murderer’s version turns out to be correct and the sexual assault is proven, justice must apply the principle of proportionality of the potential victim in the face of danger. “A person who is attacked obviously has the right to defend themselves and respond to this attack. But this response must be concomitant with the aggression and above all, it must be proportional to the aggression. If a person is sexually assaulted and responds by stabbing several times, with subsequent death… They will have had a disproportionate reaction and will therefore incur criminal liability.“, explains Henri Laquay, lawyer specializing in criminal law.
Failing to have the precise memories of the author of the murder, who was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the crime, it is now police and scientific investigation techniques that have the hand to solve this murder.
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