A Chilean and an Irishman have appeared since Friday May 13 in front of the Bouches-du-Rhône Assize Court. The second also responds to rape. The victim is a 42 -year -old man who had fled Algeria.
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At the foreign legion, in Nîmes, in the Gard, Alejandro Salazar, the Chilean, had the reputation of being a “follower”, “a weak”. Graham Shrubb, the Irishman, was “a strong head”, a brawler and abusing cocaine. The first deserted, the second was sent back for “behavior incompatible with military life”. In March 2017, in Marseille where they failed, the two ex-legionaries scams plans. They are considering training in Serbia in safety in conflict areas. The Bouches-du-Rhône Assize Court judges them since Friday, May 13 for sequestration, violence of a homophobic nature, and Graham Shrubb responds, alone, rape.
Activist LGBT, author of a book on the situation of homosexuals in the Middle East and North Africa, Zak Ostmane, 42, took refuge in France in 2014 after having fled Algeria where his “commitments made it possible to stay there. ” Camped at the helm, he tells how on March 5, 2017, while he was kidnapped by the accused in a hotel room in the Opera district of Marseille, he sees a crew of municipal police officers in the street and, without Noise, opens the window to shout at help. The two accused have held him for thirty-six hours since, “in the vapes after four pints of beer” drunk in a bar, he had agreed to follow Graham Shrubb to “have a last drink and continue to chat”.
In the hotel room, barely swallowed the first sip of beer, Graham Shrubb takes a violent blow to him the face that puts him K.-O. “I regain consciousness, he is sodomizing me,” he explains before detailing the violence and the knife placed on his throat by Alejandro Salazar so that he stops shouting. Insults are raining just as much as kicks and fists: “Dirty fagot, dirty Arab, dirty Jew.”
“Say you are homo! Say you are homo!”
A video of forcible confinement had been sent to the former partner of Graham Shrubb, Ireland. Spatted by the scene, she had immediately erased her, but to the investigators who will question her, she assured that the attackers were screaming on a man attached to a chair by pieces of sheet: “Say you are gay! Say you Es homo! “On the screens of the Assize Court are displayed the photos of Zak Ostmane, naughty in the eyes, the puffy lip, the face covered with hematomas. At the time, they had been broadcast to the press and on social networks to denounce this violent sequestration. “At the beginning, I was washing myself with bleach,” said Zak Ostmane to a psychologist whose report is read to jurors.
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