Alexandre Junca murder: trial opens in a heavy atmosphere – ladepeche.fr

                                 Mickael Baehrel when transferred to the courthouse in Pau
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The trial of the murder of Alexander Junca in 2011 opened Tuesday morning at Pau in a heavy atmosphere.

The defendants low heads, the family marked face reflect the emotion that surrounded the death of the schoolboy of thirteen killed and dismembered in a mobile phone.

Four people appear until 16 June before the Assize Court of Pyrénées-Atlantiques: two marginal, Mickaël Baerhel, 30, and Christopher Camy, 28, for “robbery resulting in death”, made subject to life imprisonment. The two main defendants arrived at the Assize Court hidden under clothing

Alongside, a retired 76-year-Claude Ducos. Believed to have helped remove the body, it is tried for “corpse concealment, violation of the integrity of a corpse, destruction of evidence and failure to report a crime.” He faces three years in prison, as Ennajah Fatima, 50, ex-girlfriend of Baerhel that responds to “corpse concealment” and “non-reporting of crime.”

The family of Alexander, in tight rows, then took place in the small courtroom but fills -a hundred people- mother Valerie Lance, red eyes. Then the father Philippe Junca, clutching the hand of the sister of Alexander, Virginia. “It’s hard, it’s hard …” said his lawyer Me Emmanuelle Leverbe, most other lawyers wishing to make a statement to the press.

In an atmosphere both heavy and serious, the accused identified themselves, Fatima Ennajah being reminded to in order to look the judges in the face. In the dock, Christophe Camy stares, look lost, while Mickael Baehrel head down.

Alexander, 13, disappeared on the evening of June 4, 2011, near his father in the center of Pau. Despite intense research Three weeks passed before the discovery of his body, dismembered: first a femur end June and other remains in October

Arrested in 2013, Mickaël Baerhel. confessed in custody have telling fatal hammer blows to Alexander. Then Christophe Camy, denounced recognized a few months later to the robbery of the laptop. But the role played by each in the crime remains unclear, and the exact fate of the body, in the hours and days that followed the attack.

After hearing the personality of investigation report the Court was to begin the interrogation of the accused in the afternoon.