Johnny Catherine
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Johnny Catherine was a former French kickboxing champion.
In 1997, Catherine was the world's top lightweight kickboxer.
On 27 December 2004, Catherine was murdered in the French territory of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean. According to police, a gang of youths attacked him with a sword and a baseball bat. His body was hacked at and sliced into by his attackers, until they finally chopped off his leg below the knee and carried it away, "like a trophy", one police officer said. The motive behind the attack on Catherine is not currently known.
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