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Man Spends Six Months Plotting Murder Of Counter-Strike Rival

2:30PM May 29, 2010 | Luke Plunkett

A Counter-Strike player in France has spent six months plotting a revenge attack against a player who beat him in an in-game knife fight. His eventual revenge was not in-game.

20 year-old Julien Barreaux, from Cambrai, had his Counter-Strike character “knifed” in a game late last year against another man, known only as “Mikhael”. Enraged at this blight against his talents, Barreaux spent six months tracking him down in the real world.

When he eventually found the victim, Barreaux knocked on the guy’s front door, then “plunged a kitchen knife into his chest” when Mikhael opened it to greet him. He missed his heart by an inch.

A local police officer told the courts “Barreaux was arrested within the hour and told us he had wanted to see his rival wiped out for killing off his character.”

The judge, who locked him up for two years on a charge of causing grievous bodily harm, says of Barreaux, “You are a menace to society. I am frankly terrified of the disproportionate reaction you could have if someone looked at you the wrong way in the street.”

Video game fanatic hunts down and stabs rival player who killed character online [The Telegraph]

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  • Laurie

    May 29, 2010 at 4:49 PM

    He should’ve been locked up in an insane asylum instead (or whatever is more PC these days). What kind of psycho takes a game that seriously? Give him a padded cell, a straight jacket, and a DS with a bunch of shovalware (he can play it with his toes :D ).

  • Aaron

    May 29, 2010 at 5:27 PM

    Idiot, doesn’t he know it takes 2 rightclicks to kill someone if your going via the front ?

  • Cerzel

    May 29, 2010 at 5:27 PM

    Two years? Are you freakin’ kidding me?

    And what happened to the other guy?

  • Shawn

    May 29, 2010 at 5:27 PM

    i wonder if there will be a call to ban games in France?

    • lcb

      May 29, 2010 at 10:26 PM

      Nah, people kill over anything. The problem is people not the product.

  • Hips

    May 29, 2010 at 5:37 PM

    I think I have like 485 (Nearly at the Plat!) knife kills on bad company 2, should I be worried about this kinda thing?

  • Peter Richards

    May 29, 2010 at 5:37 PM

    Two years??? Why only two years?
    Mind you, it is a french prison, I guess that is worth about 4 years anywhere else.

  • pdaddy

    May 29, 2010 at 5:38 PM

    This Mikhael is gonna be scared out of his brains in 2 years time when this guys gets out.. I mean, if he can hold a grudge like that for 6 months, how peeved is he gonna be for getting sent to prison for 2 yars and Mikhael survived…

    Another reason why its so easy for non-gamers to see online gaming as a bad thing, when you hear stories like this..

  • Paul

    May 29, 2010 at 5:45 PM

    Two years doesn’t seem like enough… surely this qualifies as attempted murder?

  • BrendanJB

    May 29, 2010 at 5:50 PM

    There have been so many deaths/injuries directly related to Counter Strike matches.

    It’s fucking scary.

  • Michael Barnes

    May 29, 2010 at 6:16 PM

    Thats BS! How can someone get THAT worked up over it, god damn. That blows my mind.

  • Michael Barnes

    May 29, 2010 at 6:18 PM

    Only two years? HE JUST TRIED TO F***ING KILL SOMEONE!!

  • NoiR

    May 29, 2010 at 6:31 PM

    Wow talk about being passionate about a game .___.
    Im scared to play as cs ninja now D:

  • Doug Sherry

    May 29, 2010 at 6:54 PM

    Seriously – 6 months and tried to kill the guy?

    That’s very different from punching the guy next to you in response to him kicking your virtual arse in multiplayer.

  • boo goose

    May 29, 2010 at 7:31 PM

    I gotten knifed about three times a week since I stated playing multi player shooters on the Internet. At six months planing each its going to take me ages to get revenge on all of them. Maybe I could just invite them to a facebook party and blow up the building??

  • Xavier Ekkel

    May 29, 2010 at 8:03 PM

    two years is a bit light for a psychotic threat to society…

  • Jared Lorz

    May 29, 2010 at 10:25 PM

    Holy Hell!! He attempts to murder someone and gets two years! What the heck is wrong with you Australians?

  • None

    May 29, 2010 at 10:26 PM

    I support the loony bin idea, it’s people like this who give gamers a bad name.

  • Olah Canady

    May 30, 2010 at 3:10 AM

    he’s not insane he’s a mostly typical misguided youth.

    • Adam Ruch

      May 30, 2010 at 1:14 PM

      There is nothing typical about a person who stabs another in the chest, misguided, youth, or otherwise.

    • Thompsongun

      June 1, 2010 at 12:21 PM

      Honestly, no that’s not typical. Maybe a bit misguided youth, but barely typical. Obviously has issues if he wants to take 6 months to find this guy and kill him. He should get attempted(premeditated) murder for crap like that.

  • John Taylor

    May 30, 2010 at 3:26 AM

    I wonder how he’d take losing the first fight to to Krauser in Resident Evil 4?

  • R

    May 30, 2010 at 3:47 AM

    That’s silly. Doesn’t he know that he’d just respawn after the round ends?

  • Kizaru

    May 30, 2010 at 7:00 AM

    There’s only one thing that comes to mind right now:

    “TERRORISTS WIN”

  • Jay

    May 30, 2010 at 12:00 PM

    So it IS possible for someone elses law system to be for effed up than Australia’s…. i dunno if thats good to know or frightening.

  • drawnn

    May 30, 2010 at 1:32 PM

    Pft* haha What are you talking about Jay? What do you know about Australian law?

  • rpgplayer83

    May 30, 2010 at 5:04 PM

    Is anyone surprised that it was a Counterstrike player? They are almost always quite unhinged people.

  • John Burlingame

    May 31, 2010 at 4:34 AM

    I know a similar story..some guy assassinated another guy in halo. So the guy found him and stabbed him with a plasma sword….too soon?

    • rpgplayer83

      May 31, 2010 at 11:39 AM

      A while back some guy got owned in a game of Pong. So the guy found him and beat him to death with a Table Tennis Paddle.
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