Rémy Roy
Rémy Roy (born 1958) is a homophobic French serial killer nicknamed "The Minitel Killer". A repressed homosexual, he made contact and an appointment with his victims via the pink homosexual Minitel to kill them after a staged sadomasochistic act without sex. Biography. Rémy Roy had a good childhood. He was a pampered child who studied at the brothers of Saint Vincent de Paul. His schooling was mediocre, but he still attended to the end. He loved the sea and went to a sailing school, where he became a skipper. He met Florence Arthaud and Philippe Poupon while sailing  on the old trimaran of Olivier de Kersauson. He also worked for the closest collaborator of Nicolas Hulot. He met Françoise, an owner of a bookstore where she gave lectures. They got married, lived in Villejuif, had a daughter, then a son. Françoise described him as a very good father, a teddy, very generous, very good, who wanted to be loved and only worked by the love of others. He was an occasional freelancer on a boating magazine. He very actively helped his wife in his bookstore, full-time without being paid. In 1988, Françoise hired a friend. He found  himself without activity and decided to open a promotional video creation company based in his home. But his company never reached the breakeven point. Unwanted, he sunk into depression, spending his time in bed, nibbling and gaining up to 120 kg. He began to use the Minitel, devoted more and more time, several hours each day. The facts and the investigation. On October 11, 1990, in the afternoon, in undergrowth at Draveil on the banks of the Seine, Rémy Roy had an appointment with Paul Bernard, a 46-year-old insurance agent. He lived in Issy-les-Moulineaux, with his  retired mother, a widow of 25 years. His family called him "Saint Paul". He used the intensely pink homosexual Minitel under the pseudonyms "hpoilu75", "hpoilu75asoumettre" or "hpoilu75aexhiber", and thus has many contacts. He had masochistic tendencies. Roy gagged him with a scarf, tied his hands to his back and the testicles with string and fractured his skull with a big stone. Paul Bernard died of asphyxiation, probably strangled, as he has traces of links around the neck. On October 12, 1990, around 10 am, a fisherman found Paul Bernard naked, lying on his stomach, his head covered with trousers. His  car was found in the parking lot of the marina about a kilometer away. On the night of 19 to 20 October 1990, Rémy Roy went to Champigny-sur-Marne in the pavilion of Gilbert Duquesnoy, an astrologer "mage Nathaniel", 48-years-old. Gilbert Duquesnoy used the pink homosexual minitel intensively under the pseudonyms "Daisy" or "Coralie". He also had masochistic tendencies. He had a consultancy in Paris on the 9th. They talked while drinking a glass of port wine. Roy covered his head with a leather hood, tied his ankles and hands to his back, and smashed the right  side of his skull with at least seven very violent hammer blows. Roy left with the hammer, the glass in which he drank, the diary and the address books of Gilbert. Gilbert's dachshund followed him for a moment on the street. Roy threw the hammer into the river Marne. At the Nogent-sur-Marne Station, he went the RER where he threw Gilbert's diary and address books. On October 22, 1990, Alain, Gilbert's husband, worried about having no news, asked his neighbors to check on him in the pavilion. They found him lying naked on his stomach  on his bed in the room on the first floor. His house was in great disorder. Next to the bed, there was an open briefcase containing objects for sexual use. On November 17, 1990, around 11 AM, Rémy Roy went to Paris in the 16th to Hugues Moreau, head of a wall covering company for 41 years. Roy smashed his skull several times with a big metal faucet. He stole checkbooks, bank cards and a fax machine. His wife discovered Hugues around 13 hours later in the back shop, lying naked on his belly, hands tied to his back, with  chains around his waist. Beside him, there was a bag containing a whole range of sadomasochistic objects. A few days later, at the Fnac in Paris, Rémy Roy bought an underwater camcorder, which he paid for with one of the stolen checks. On October 8, 1991, Rémy Roy went to Villeneuve-Saint-Georges to Bruno Giraudon, a 32-year-old public servant. He used the pink homosexual Minitel under the pseudonym "other thing" to find complicity, tenderness, and possible love. They drank and discussed various subjects. Roy said he is a photographer in newspapers specialized in the world of sailing . Then he told Bruno that he practised sadomasochistic practices. He took out of his bag the material. On October 8, 1991, Rémy Roy went to Villeneuve-Saint-Georges to Bruno Giraudon, a 32-year-old public servant. He used the pink homosexual Minitel under the "other thing" pseudonym to find complicity, tenderness, and possible love. They drank and discussed various subjects. Roy said he is a photographer in newspapers specialized in the world of sailing. Then he told Bruno that he practised sadomasochistic practices. Roy stole a bag containing a checkbook and all his identity papers; he left Bruno dead  and put the accessories on the ground. He took out of his bag the material he had brought. He offered Bruno to try it, but he refused. Roy hit him on the head with a stone lamp foot, so he fainted. Bruno's friends discovered him, lying naked on his stomach, bathed in his blood. He was taken into a coma at the hospital and could only make statements to the police after three days of care. A month later, at a video hardware store, Roy bought a flatbed editor and a video recorder. He told the seller that he  had a camcorder to take underwater shots, and he wanted a compatible flatbed editor to go with it. He paid with one of the stolen checks from Bruno Giraudon. The price being 14 900 french francs, the seller asked for an ID. Roy presented Bruno Giraudon's driver's license, on which he had placed his photo. The seller photocopied it. A few hours later, he made another purchase in another video store, which he also paid with a stolen check from Bruno. The store was equipped with CCTV cameras. The investigators thus obtained images of Rémy Roy. They presented  them to the editors of a dozen newspapers specialized in the world of sailing. Alain Coroller, editor-in-chief of "Neptune Yachting, "identified Rémy Roy. Arrest. In November 1991, Rémy Roy was arrested at his home in Villejuif. Investigators found Bruno Giraudon's checkbook and his driver's license with Roy's photo in his parka. His criminal record was blank. He was incarcerated in Fresnes prison. During interrogations in police custody, he stated that: The investigators did not find another victim in their files. Jean Martel, expert psychiatrist and Caroline Legendre, expert psychologist, noted that Roy said he suffered  a lot of his father's absences, who travelled a lot. At school, his classmates belittled him. His mother often whipped him with a leather thong. The arm tied him to a branch and undressed him when he was 13 years old, while in a cinema, a man sitting next to him forced him to masturbate and ejaculate. When he was 17 years old in terminal school, he had a band of friends to do some services (repairing audio devices, electronics) for a bit of money. His friends found that his services cost them too much money, demanding that he  repaid them, which he could not. They offered him an alternative, to show off naked in a gym for an older man. He refused and ran away. They all then collectively raped him in an apartment. That is why he hated homosexuals. The police investigated these facts and established that they never occurred. Investigators understood that it was not the memories he described but his fantasies. For psychiatrists, these stories revealed his sadomasochistic tendencies, which he repressed when he was active. They freed themselves when he found himself idle and depressed before the Minitel. Not supporting this image that it  sends back of itself, he killed. Roy was charged with murdering Paul Bernard and Gilbert Duquesnoy, the assassination attempt on Bruno Giraudon and murdering Hugues Moreau. The premeditation on Hugues Moreau was not retained because Rémy Roy came to his house without equipment and used the one that Hugues Moreau had at his place. Trial and sentence. On June 26, 1996, the trial of Rémy Roy began at the cour d'assises of Val-de-Marne in Creteil. Rémy Roy's defense was provided by lawyers Gérard Serfaty and Bernard Prévost. Christian Mour was the lawyer Gilbert Duquesnoy's parents and  his husband Alain. Philippe Petillault was the lawyer of the civil parties. Camille Tardo-Dino was the General Counsel. On June 28, 1996, Rémy Roy was sentenced to life imprisonment with an 18-year lock-in period.