A 15-year-old boy has been charged after killing a girl of the same age. Wanting to steal her phone, he killed her with “several stab wounds.”
Inès, a 15-year-old teenager, was stabbed to death in Limoges, our colleagues from RMC revealed. His body was found on the night of Saturday December 15 to Sunday December 16 in undergrowth in Isle (Haute-Vienne).
A 15-year-old boy was indicted for “robbery with violence resulting in death”. He admitted to having killed Inès.
• The disappearance of the teenager reported
On Friday December 13, around 8:30 p.m., a mother went to the Limoges police station to report the worrying disappearance of her daughter, Inès, 15 years old. She reports that the teenager said she had to be absent “to collect documents related to an internship she was doing, and that she had gone to an appointment near her home around 6:30 p.m.”, said Émilie Abrantes, public prosecutor of Limoges, at a press conference this Monday, December 16.
In the evening, police patrols are informed of Inès’ disappearance. Geolocations of his cell phone are carried out. They all border on the commune of Isle.
• A teenager identified behind the Snapchat profile
On Friday evening, Inès’ sister reported to the police that she had seen exchanges between her sister and a Snapchat profile before she left for her meeting. She claims to have had no news from her sister since.
The day after Inès disappeared, she went to the police station again with her mother. Their hearings make it possible “to provide important details, in particular regarding the Snapchat profile corresponding to a teenager with whom Inès had been interacting for a few days”, indicates the public prosecutor. However, his identity is not known to the family.
The Limoges public prosecutor’s office entrusts the investigation to the organized and specialized crime department of the Interdepartmental Service of the Limoges judicial police “in view of the particularly worrying circumstances” of Inès’ disappearance.
Significant human resources are being used to find the teenager. Her family, for their part, is carrying out research to find her, but also to “identify the Snapchat contact”.
The profile was identified the day after Inès’ disappearance was reported, on Saturday afternoon. This is a young man aged 15. He is unknown to the police and justice services, indicates the magistrate at a press conference.
• He admits to having killed Inès
First heard as a witness, the teenager, who initially denies the facts, is quickly placed in police custody “in view of his answers”. The investigation continues under the regime of flagrante delicacy, on the charge of “murder”.
Faced with investigators, the young man quickly admits to being involved in Inès’ death. He explains that he knows her “for having already chatted with her on the bus that they sometimes took together”.
He recognizes exchanges with Inès on social networks, the week before her disappearance. Then, he explains that he arranged to meet her on Friday December 13 at 6:30 p.m. at the bus stop located near the Isle judo room.
He goes on to explain that he set up this ambush for the teenager with the intention of stealing her cell phone. To attract Inès, he pretends to want to give her a gift from a friend.
The two young people meet at the meeting point at the agreed time then the teenager directs Inès towards a nearby wood, holding a jewelry box in his hand.
The teenager explains to investigators “that he tried to steal the phone” from Inès, “but as the latter struggled, he stabbed her several times, leading to her death”, specifies Émilie Abrantes.
During the hearings, he explained that he armed himself with a knife to “be able to intimidate” Inès if the latter refused to give him her phone. He told investigators that the teenager struggled, that she contacted her sister by phone to call for help, “and that in a panic, he grabbed the phone and punched her several times. knife lest his cries give rise to the alarm.
He said he ran away after the incident, and got rid of Inès’ phone in the cellar of a building, before returning to his home around 7:30 p.m. The phone was found switched off during a search.
• The body of Inès discovered in an undergrowth
Following the instructions of the person in custody, investigators found Inès’ body in an undergrowth located near housing estates in Isle, during the night from Saturday to Sunday, around 1 a.m.
“The first observations made on site showed that the victim had not been undressed and that she had a significant number of wounds,” reported the public prosecutor at a press conference.
Inès’ body was stabbed with around forty stab wounds. “The main marks are on the neck, under the left breast and on the back, and some are deep.” Among these traces of blow are defense lesions.
On site, investigators discovered the famous jewelry box, “which corroborates the statements of the person in custody”. A kitchen knife was also found behind a rock, near the teenager’s body. The young man designates it as the murder weapon.
• Open judicial information
A judicial investigation into the charge of “robbery with violence resulting in death” was opened on Monday December 16 by the Limoges public prosecutor’s office. The teenager was presented before the investigating magistrate.
A psychological unit was set up by the services of the rectorate of the Academy of Limoges “in order to provide assistance to Inès’ comrades, particularly shocked by her death”, adds the magistrate. “Measures were also taken in the establishment where the accused attends school, due to the disturbance caused by the facts.”
• Inès, a “very pleasant”, “happy” teenager
Inès’ comrades have been in shock since her death. “She was a very pleasant, happy girl. She was always smiling,” reports a second grade student close to the teenager to RMC.
“I don’t see why he did that, she had no history, she was very nice,” confides another friend of Inès.
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