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Monday September 30, he was sentenced to three years in prison for acts of violence against his wife and two daughters. The next morning, this 49-year-old Croatian died in his cell after having, it seems, ingested pieces of foam. An autopsy of the body was ordered to investigate the causes of death…
Placed in pre-trial detention at the Carcassonne remand center since September 28, we remember that it was on Monday September 30 that Jovica Djuric, a 49-year-old Croatian, appeared in court to answer for violence by a spouse without incapacity, against his partner and his two daughters. But also to respond to repeated death threats against these same people, and the possession of a pistol with its ammunition. The events in question took place on the night of September 26 to 27 in Carcassonne, in an apartment on rue de Strasbourg. That day, the forty-year-old was sentenced to three years in prison, with continued detention.
Taken back to the remand center on Avenue du Général-Leclerc, where he returned to the 9 m2 cell that he occupied with two other inmates, the forty-year-old had not particularly been talked about. Until this Tuesday morning, September 1st, indirectly, when it was these fellow prisoners who knocked on the cell door to alert the guards, while he was choking. On site, the prison doctor and the Smur emergency workers were unable to bring the forty-year-old back to life.
An autopsy ordered by the prosecution
For the moment, nothing explains the reasons for this sudden death. However, pieces of mattress foam were found in the throat of the deceased. Enough to give free rein to all questions. Did he ingest these pieces of foam voluntarily, or was he forced to swallow them? An autopsy on the body of the victim, who had no known suicidal thoughts, was ordered by the Carcassonne public prosecutor’s office as part of the investigation into the causes of death…
In the meantime, the two fellow prisoners of the forty-year-old were interviewed by the police, in order to understand what could have happened to lead to such a tragic end. According to our information, these two detainees are known to be relatively calm, and there is nothing to suggest that they may have committed anything. Investigations continue.
