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Tarantino Violence is how British Police Describe Murder of 2 French Students

July 4th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Brutally murdered students Laurent Bonomo (left) and Gabriel Ferez

A pair of gifted bio-engineering students were tied to chairs, tortured, stabbed almost 250 times in the head, chest and back and set on fire all in an attempt to get them to divulge their PIN numbers.

A detective on the scene described “the scale of the violence” as “extraordinary,” adding, “This was like a scene from a Tarantino gangster film, but these men were not criminals. These were two talented and innocent men who had no history of criminality.”

Police believe that the two French students, Laurent Bonomo and Gabriel Ferez, were murdered in a robbery that went terribly wrong. The pair, both 23, are believed to have been tortured for hours in order to obtain their bank details. According to thisislondon.co.uk, “The theory has gathered pace with the discovery by detectives that two mobile phones and two new Sony PSP games consoles had been stolen from Mr. Bonomo’s flat” in New Cross, south-east London.

The report continues,”Mr. Bonomo and Mr. Ferez, already marked out as the most gifted of their generation, were killed just eight weeks after arriving in Britain from their native France.” After being bound, gagged, stabbed and tortured, both men were coated with some type of combustible liquid and set ablaze, possibly to destroy evidence. The resulting fire causing a minor explosion.

Detectives are trying to establish whether Mr. Bonomo was already being tortured when Mr. Ferez, who lived several miles away in Thornton Heath, turned up at his friend’s flat.

Six days before the murders, Mr. Bonomo exited the shower and walked in on an intruder who stole a laptop. Police are examining the possibility that a drug-addicted burglar later returned and subjected the men to the unspeakable horrors.

Mr. Bonomo and Mr. Ferez had won three-month internships at Imperial College, London, following glittering academic careers. Both were graduates of colleges linked to the Cole Polytechnique, the state-run institution founded in 1794 which is viewed as the most prestigious engineering college in France.

They were due to return home later this month.

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