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“While playing Fortnite, he had an altercation online with another player who insulted him,” Grégoire Dulin, the public prosecutor, said. “Very angry, he stopped playing and went out to calm down.”
He took a knife, “intending to mug or rob someone”, the prosecutor said.
He encountered Louise when she had nearly reached her home, in the same normally tranquil neighbourhood as his, a ten-minute walk from the school which they both attended, although not at the same time.
“He met Louise, whom he did not know, by chance,” the prosecutor said. “He spotted her mobile, which she was carrying on a cord around her neck, and decided to follow her.”
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He then persuaded her to accompany him into nearby woodland on the pretext that he had lost something there, he told investigators.
“When they reached a quiet spot, he told her he was going to search her things to steal money, while threatening her with a knife,” Dulin said. “She started screaming. Panicked, he pushed her to the ground and stabbed her.”
Immediately after Owen L’s arrest, he insisted he was innocent but is said to have later admitted his guilt after his DNA was found on Louise’s body, which had defence wounds indicating a struggle. He had scratches and cuts on his right hand, but the knife he is said to have used to kill the schoolgirl, which he said he dumped in a dustbin, has not been found.
His 24-year-old girlfriend, who was allegedly told of the attack when he returned home, has been charged with failing to report a crime, which is punishable by up to three years in prison and a €45,000 fine.
Prosecutors said that it had emerged from the investigations that Owen L had previously tried to entice another schoolgirl into the woods, but she had refused.
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