On May 21, 2015, Adrien Bottollier left his apartment in Chambéry in the middle of the night, armed with a knife, and leaving his girlfriend behind. In the street, the psychology student met a 51-year-old homeless alcoholic man who asked him for a cigarette and his way to the station. “If I kill him and he disappears, who will complain?” He asked himself.
At dawn, the man was found dead in one of the city’s parks, with 28 stab wounds and his pants down to the ankles. Shortly after the murder, Adrien Bottollier prided himself of his achievement in front of his friends, who did not take him seriously because they considered him shy and non-violent.
On Facebook, a few hours after the fact, he wrote to a friend living abroad: “For the first time, my murderous delusions are not delusions. Do you believe me if I tell you that I killed last night?“. ”I have never felt so alive, but if you have the opportunity, put me in prison,“ he adds. Later, to this same friend who does not believe him, he reminded him that he sent him on Snapchat the photo of a bloody knife the night of the murder.
”I expected to wait next year to kill again but to prove my sincerity to you, it will happen sooner.“ Three months later, new message: ”I think I’m going crazy. I don’t know what to do anymore, I’m afraid of myself.”
The investigation that stalled moved forward, January 5, 2016, when the Chambers investigators are contacted by their counterparts in Thonon-les-Bains (Haute-Savoie): Adrien Bottollier has just committed a knife attack there, and he boasted to his victim of having killed a man in Chambéry.
On the evening of December 25, 2015, Bottollier joined a group of customers in a city bar. He had spoken with one of them at great length. He then invited the man back to his mother’s house.
After having a drink together, Adrien Bottollier took off his T-shirt in order to show his guest a scar, the consequence of an injury he inflicted to himself in order to “see his heart to feel alive”. Noting that his host “had a problem”, the guest managed to escape, not without being stabbed twice.
During the investigation, the young man said he felt disgust when thinking about the acts. Ten days before the murder, he also wondered near a friend if he was not a serial killer.
His lawyer Marie-Laure Martinez, of the Chambéry bar, wants this trial to be an opportunity to understand “who he is”, asking to see him “as he is and not as he may have been described in the past”. “He wants to explain himself. It is important for him.” The accused is facing life imprisonment.
The verdict is expected January 31, 2020.
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