A 26 year old woman. Also a 26 year old man. Both arrested in Perpignan. And both known to the courts for acts of violence. This is what we know about the two people indicted for a double murder committed on November 9, 2024 in Douarnenez, in Finistère. It was a little after 6 a.m. when the gendarmes noticed smoke emanating from an apartment in a public housing project in Kermabon. At the foot of the small building with a view of the marina, the police discovered a shirtless, barefoot man with multiple wounds on his chest. Conscious, the 44-year-old man ended up dying a few minutes later from cardio-respiratory arrest. But the matter did not end there.
Inside the home, completely destroyed by fire, the police discovered the charred body of a 61-year-old man in a bed. Under guardianship, this man with a severe disability “could only move around with difficulty” and remained bedridden most of the time, reveal investigators from the Research Section. At the scene, they discovered a lighter and a knife stained with blood. Autopsies showed that both victims had been stabbed to death.
Drug and alcohol “friends”
The police quickly learned that a couple had spent the evening with the two victims the day before the incident. The man and woman were arrested on November 18 in Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales) and placed in police custody. Indicted for murder of a vulnerable person and for repeat murder, the woman has already been convicted for similar acts in the past, according to the Brest prosecutor's office. She is also being prosecuted for altering the inventory of a crime for setting fire to the home. The man was indicted for the same facts but without any notion of repeat offenses. They were placed in pre-trial detention.
For the moment, the motive for these murders has still not been confirmed by the Brest prosecutor's office. Before being relinquished, the Quimper public prosecutor's office explained that people with disabilities had the habit of “welcoming idle people, looking for narcotics, often alcoholics”. Facts which caused “numerous neighborhood disturbances”, according to investigators.
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