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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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French ‘seduction coach’ jailed for life for savage murder of ex-girlfriend

A screengrab from one of Mickaël Philétas’s videos
A screengrab from one of Mickaël Philétas’s more than 1,500 YouTube videos about masculinity. Photograph: YouTube

A self-styled expert in “seduction” and “masculinity” has been jailed for life for the murder of his ex-girlfriend in a town outside Paris in 2020.

Mickaël Philétas, 41, a former French railworker who retrained as an aerobics coach and posted videos online about living the life of an alpha male, was found guilty of stabbing to death his 34-year-old ex-girlfriend at her home in Ecquevilly.

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