Two months earlier, after an argument, this homeless man had headbutted and made a fatal strangulation key to a…
Two months earlier, after an argument, this homeless man had headbutted and made a fatal strangulation key to a camp neighbor in the Bordeaux-Lac sector. On his instructions, the lifeless body of Jean-Luc Glénisson, a sixty-year-old nicknamed José identified later, had been found in a trash can filled with earth, in a state of decomposition. The autopsy confirmed death by strangulation.
Defended by M.e Camille Casagrande, Christophe Sevin has been on trial for murder since Monday January 30 by the Gironde Assize Court. He faces thirty years of criminal imprisonment. But before coming to the facts, the judges are interested in the accused and his chaotic journey.
adopted child
Born in Poland, the accused was left in the care of an orphanage at the age of two months. Adopted at the age of 6 by a French family from the North, he has not heard from his family for fifteen years. “My father was fine,” says the accused. “My mother was educated the old way, she reproduced abuse. »
Small ridge on a receding hairline, hands engulfed in the sleeves of his hooded sweatshirt, Christophe Sevin tells his story without makeup and without self-pity. “My mother couldn’t stand me speaking Polish, she hit me, even with a hammer. My father would come home late and see nothing. If I said something, I charged more the next day. »
Me Céline Abella supports the civil parties, close to Jean-Luc Glénisson, nicknamed José, whose body was found in a trash can two months after his death, on the instructions of the accused.
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At age 9, he was placed in boarding school for the first time. Homes will follow, sometimes in Belgium. He was not going to class, fleeing the world. “I was turbulent and hyperactive,” he explains with a shrug. “I ran away a lot, I was hanging out on the streets at 14 and I started drinking very early too. »
His parents also adopted a daughter. “It was the same with my sister, my mother hit her. She went back to live in Russia. He admits to a grade level of CM2, but uses a more extensive vocabulary.
He has had no fixed address since he was 18 years old. He lived from “odd jobs on the right and left”, from the sleeve, “from a few thefts, we will say” and from “recoveries in cars”. Understand the thefts from the trailer that led him to prison several times. His criminal record already shows sixteen convictions.
“Excuse me, but me the dates…” he underlines. He would have come to Bordeaux in 2018. “For a change of scenery. I was tired of going back and forth in prison. However, he has not distanced himself from his addictions to alcohol and drugs. “Cannabis, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, Acid…” he lists.
