The stepfather of the 14-year-old boy found dead last week in the family home in Alénya (Pyrénées-Orientales) was indicted for murder of a 15-year-old minor and imprisoned Thursday evening, we learned on Friday with the prosecution.
Presented to the investigating judge late Thursday afternoon, the 42-year-old man “remained silent during his interrogation“, the deputy public prosecutor of Perpignan, Nicolas Brignol, told AFP.
The mother of the teenager named Emilio was also indicted for murder of a 15-year-old minor and imprisoned on Monday. The couple was arrested last week in Val-d'Oise where they had fled.
The father-in-law, “already convicted of violence and drug offenses“, had been “hospitalized following drug absorption before the arrival of investigators“, indicated the prosecutor on Friday October 25.
Conflictful separation
For her part, the mother, “never condemned“, had been “placed in police custody in Argenteuil” before being brought back to the Pyrénées-Orientales. She was a childminder in the neighboring town of Saint-Cyprien, by the sea, also in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
The family was “known for procedures linked to a conflictual separation of the parental couple”had also affirmed the prosecution.
The case began with the revelations of a friend of the father-in-law, who came to the Argenteuil police station to report that the 42-year-old man had confided to him “having smoked his stepson”.
The autopsy carried out on Monday at the Montpellier University Hospital confirmed that a multitude of violent blows were inflicted on the victim's entire body.
