A septuagenarian killed with a chainsaw by his neighbor in Oise

And 77-year-old man was killed Saturday at midday in Verbrerie in theOiseindicated the Senlis public prosecutor’s office, specifying that the alleged perpetrator had been arrested and hospitalized under duress due to his psychiatric condition.

According to a source within the gendarmerie, the accused is a thirty-year-old with mental disorders and in interruption of treatment.

The police, alerted by witnesses, found the suspect on site. “stained with blood” who told investigators “having killed his neighbor using a chainsaw“indicated Senlis prosecutor Loïc Abrial in a press release.

Already sentenced in 2019

The man, already convicted in particular for aggravated violence in 2019 and who had completed his sentence, was presented to a psychiatrist in the evening, who declared his état “incompatible with police custody”according to the same source.

And murder investigation was opened, and entrusted to the Senlis research brigade, with the support of the Amiens Research Section.

An autopsy is planned for the beginning of the week, the prosecutor said.