The two men found dead after a fire were stabbed to death

Five days after the tragedy, the scenario became clearer. Early Saturday morning, two men died in a building in a public housing project in Douarnenez (Finistère). The first elements initially suggested that the two victims, aged 44 and 61, had both died in an apartment fire. In this case, the criminal trail is now confirmed and an investigation for “murder or assassination” has been opened and entrusted to the criminal department of the Brest public prosecutor's office, we learned this Wednesday from the Quimper public prosecutor's office.

The first victim, the 44-year-old man, was discovered by the gendarmes at the foot of the burned building on Saturday morning a little after 6 a.m. Bare torso and feet, he wore bloody jeans and had wounds on his chest.

“Although conscious, he could not comment on the facts and died quickly on the spot, following a cardio-respiratory arrest,” underlines Jean-Luc Lennon, deputy public prosecutor of Quimper, in a press release. The autopsy carried out on Tuesday on the body of the forty-year-old revealed the presence of sixteen blows with a knife.

The DNA of the two victims on a knife and a lighter

Inside the burned and completely destroyed apartment, the gendarmes discovered a few minutes later “a second body that was not immediately identifiable”. Ultimately it was the tenant, a 61-year-old man who was disabled and placed under enhanced guardianship. Bedridden every day in a medical bed, he had difficulty moving around. Already known to the courts for drug trafficking, he had the habit of welcoming “idle people, looking for narcotics, often alcoholics” in his apartment, specifies the Quimper prosecutor's office.

This Wednesday, the autopsy carried out on the sixty-year-old also “revealed several injuries on the body, leading to death, possibly with the same weapon as the first victim”. A knife with traces of blood and a lighter were also discovered in the grass, under the window of the burned home. “On the weapon, as well as on the lighter, the DNA samples only revealed the genetic profile of the two deceased people,” adds Jean-Luc Lennon. The investigation will now continue to determine the exact circumstances of this double homicide.