Not even death could separate them. Three brothers, from a family of nine children (seven brothers and two sisters), were executed and their bodies burned by criminals from the Viv Ansanm coalition during the night of September 9 to 10, 2025, in Turgeau. Patrick Lalane (42), Josué Lalane (38), and Widechel Lalane (28), all mechanics, now join the grim list of lives crushed by the blind and boundless violence of the terrorist organization Viv Ansanm.

Their brother, Stanley Lalane, recounted the horror experienced by the family during that night he is not ready to forget. “The bandits burst into our home at the corner of Rue M and Rue Jean Paul II around midnight. Alerted by a sudden movement from one of my brothers, I understood we were in danger. I had to flee with three of my children and my wife toward the Saint-Géraud bridge, where there is a fixed police checkpoint,” he explained to the newspaper.