12-year-old Fiona Revillon massacred by her gang
" She was telling everybody that I’d slept with her and gotten her pregnant. I was getting sick of it. " On July 5th, 2000, 21-year-old Raphael took Fiona off along the Deûle canal. Then he drowns her. Fiona follows him blindly, in love no doubt. Especially as she has no other place to go. She is fleeing the shelter where she has been abandoned by her depressed mother. " I gave her a blow to the right side of the head with a stick. I thought I had killed her right off, then she moved. " The kicks rain down and her face is trampled on but she manages to get up. Johan drags her to the edge of the canal, Raphael gives her a kick in the back. " She caught herself on Johan’s foot but he pushed her into the water. I split but Johan called me back: " She’s still on her feet.." I jumped into the canal and put her head underwater. Once I had finished Fiona off, Johan helped me out onto the bank." Raphael Laine and Johan Deleplace were sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. Meddy Poulain to three and Sebastien Maetie to two years for " non prevention of a crime.” On another July 5th, three years before, Rafael’s father, idolized by his son, hung himself. The morning of the crime Raphaelvisited his father’s grave. He took tranquillizers and drank. A lot. " Maybe on another day it wouldn’t have happened. But that day I was very angry. "Three days after his incarceration Raphael tried to hang himself with the sheets of his cell