This young couple had just stopped in a parking lot last Thursday around 8 p.m. in the town of Courville in the Marne, located a few kilometers from the village where they lived. Just a moment to decide together what they were going to do with their night. This brief stop would turn into a nightmare. Costing the life of a young man of 19 years, his partner, hardly older, was going to live a real ordeal, between kidnapping and rape.
Because that evening, they unfortunately crossed paths with Rudy Carlin, a 41 year old Rémois, convicted 27 times between 1998 and 2018, mainly for acts of theft, or aggravated theft, traffic offenses, and more occasionally acts of violence, or kidnapping. He has accumulated, since 1998, 268 months in prison, or more than 22 years. He was released from custody in March 2020, where he had just served a two-year prison sentence handed down by the correctional court in Châlons-en-Champagne in August 2018. He had served all his sentences, and was not serving his sentence. subject to no probation or judicial follow-up. But he had not finished with his tortious and now deadly journey.
Thursday evening, in this Courville parking lot, Rudy Carlin positioned himself in the parking lot, with his stolen black Audi, at the height of the couple’s vehicle. He asked them “if they knew where we could buy hash”, then got out of his vehicle, armed with a rifle.
The young man and his companion tried to flee but they were unable to start their vehicle.
Armed with his rifle, Rudy Carlin forced the young man to get out of his car and his companion to get into the trunk of his black Audi. It was when the young man tried to intervene, going to the aid of his companion, that Rudy Carlin fired. The young man then collapsed to the ground. He later died from his injuries.
The autopsy carried out on Saturday established that he had been killed by a single shot in the abdomen from less than 1 meter away, causing a very significant hemorrhage. He also had very little blood in his body at the time of this autopsy.
The girl kidnapped in the trunk of the vehicle
The attacker, still at gunpoint, then forced the young girl to get into the trunk of her vehicle. The latter, who had kept her mobile phone with her, had the presence of mind to call the firefighters, who informed the gendarmes. She also left a message for her mother. Rudy Carlin stopped his vehicle a few minutes later, took the young girl out and having understood that she had her phone, took it before throwing it into nature. He threatened her again to find out if she had any other means of communication with her. It was during this discussion that he explained his motivations. Telling him that he was getting out of prison and “that he was looking for a girl to make love to “.
They then resumed the road, the young girl was able to take a seat in the back of the passenger compartment of the car, not without having previously been tied both knees together with a belt, and her hands with a T-shirt. Rudy Carlin, also armed with a knife, then explained to him that he was looking to fill up with gasoline. Assuring him several times that he would release once full.
They then stopped in the town of Saint-Hilaire le Grand. The aggressor then detached his victim, so that she could take a few steps. It was around 10:30 p.m. according to the young girl’s testimony. With a lot of cold blood, she tried to make him talk to avoid any sexual assault. He confided in her a lot throughout the night, talking about his family, his vacations, his incarceration, his love life …
“He felt compelled to rape her because he hadn’t shot his boyfriend for nothing”
Before adding coldly, according to victim statements, “that he felt obliged to rape her because he had not shot his boyfriend for nothing”. She managed to convince him not to take action but to hit the road again to drop her off on Fismes. A new attempt to fill up with gasoline failed in Châlons-en-Champagne, the station being closed. The attacker then told him that he would release her after 5 hours, once he could have refueled without paying when the other stations opened.
They then left for Saint-Hilaire-Le-Grand. Throughout the night, according to the victim, her attacker consumed a bottle of orange vodka, smoked joints and probably substitutes. Shortly before 6 a.m., when the victim thought he was finally going to release her, Rudy Carlin threatened her verbally, forced her to partially undress, then imposed caresses of a sexual nature. on the body. He eventually raped her several times in the vehicle. After her ordeal, the young girl managed to convince her attacker to leave in order to free her. He left her at the roundabout in the town of Gueux, without knowing that the gendarmerie was a few hundred meters away, where the young girl was able to take refuge.
The gendarmes succeeded in carrying out very rapid investigations thanks to the collaboration of the young girl who, despite what she had just experienced, gave valuable indications to the investigators with a lot of cold blood despite what she was going through.
Rudy Carlin loaned his cell phone for his victim to reassure his mother
With in particular this call made to his mother with the phone of the attacker, the latter having lent him to allow him to reassure her. The means of investigation, with the telephone, allowed the investigators to quickly go back to Rudy Carlin, very unfavorably known by his multiple convictions. The young girl even formally recognized him in a photo that investigators presented to her.
The gendarmes of the research section of Reims succeeded in finding the trace of the aggressor at one of his friends in Jonchery-sur-Suippes. The GIGN branch in Reims carried out the arrest on Friday evening, while the man was outside without his weapon. He tried to flee but was quickly overpowered.
In all, the investigation mobilized more than 100 gendarmes under the direction of the Research Section of Reims.
Rudy Carlin was taken into custody Friday night for murder, kidnapping, forcible confinement, sexual assault and rape and theft. His vehicle as well as the weapons had been stolen a few days earlier in the Aisne from one of his acquaintances.
He immediately admitted all of the facts, except for wanting to kill the girl’s companion, explaining that it was an accident. He told the gendarmes that he was chasing a girl, that he drove past the couple, that he saw a girl, that he then turned around and put cartridges in the car. gun. He admitted having shot the young man who was trying to intervene, but he thought that the wound was not serious as regards the pellets, and that the people who were nearby would come and rescue him.
“All that for shitty sex …”
He also said he had thought of surrendering, knowing he would be found after letting his victim use his own phone to call his mother. One more inconsistency in his behavior and his speeches, between moments when he realized the gravity of the situation and others when he behaved in “predator“.
“He called himself crazy, nice and bad, specifies the Reims Prosecutor, Matthieu Bourrette. He was aware of the gravity of the facts adding ‘all this for shitty sex’ “.
A judicial investigation was opened for the counts of murder in recidivism for having been convicted for an offense punishable by 10 years of imprisonment in 2002 (possession of narcotics), followed by rapes in recidivism (same motive for the recidivism), kidnapping and forcible confinement followed by voluntary release before the 7th day, sexual assault, repeated theft.
He faces life imprisonment. He was remanded in custody.
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