Octavius
06-01-2005, 22:53
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Terrible tragedy
From correspondents in Saint Denis, Reunion Island
A GANG of youths has used a samurai sword to hack a former French kickboxing champion to death on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
Police in the French territory said Johnny Catherine, 34, died after about 20 youths set upon him with the sword and a baseball bat.
The autopsy which proceded yesterday confirmed the horror of the scene. The seven boys tracked their victim until driving back in the court of the house of his aunt. There, the murderers attackt him with a sword and a axe or baseball bat until he died.
They sliced into his body until they finally chopped off his leg below the knee and carried it away "like a trophy", one police officer said today.
The motive behind the attack on Mr Catherine, who was the world's top lightweight kickboxer in 1997, was not immediately known.
Hij was:
Wereldkampioen Savate (-63 kg) in 1997,
Europeeskampioen in 1998 en 2000
Terrible tragedy
From correspondents in Saint Denis, Reunion Island
A GANG of youths has used a samurai sword to hack a former French kickboxing champion to death on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.
Police in the French territory said Johnny Catherine, 34, died after about 20 youths set upon him with the sword and a baseball bat.
The autopsy which proceded yesterday confirmed the horror of the scene. The seven boys tracked their victim until driving back in the court of the house of his aunt. There, the murderers attackt him with a sword and a axe or baseball bat until he died.
They sliced into his body until they finally chopped off his leg below the knee and carried it away "like a trophy", one police officer said today.
The motive behind the attack on Mr Catherine, who was the world's top lightweight kickboxer in 1997, was not immediately known.
Hij was:
Wereldkampioen Savate (-63 kg) in 1997,
Europeeskampioen in 1998 en 2000