A 25-year-old young man was stabbed to death in Châteauroux (Indre) during the night from Thursday to Friday. The perpetrator(s) are on the run, indicates a Source close to the case, confirming information from France Blue. This is the second murder in the town in the space of three days, and the third in two weeks.
The police were alerted around 1 a.m. A young man had just received several stab wounds on Place Voltaire, behind the Saint-André church, in the Saint-Denis district. Law enforcement found the victim lying on the ground in a pool of blood. Despite emergency resuscitation attempts and the transport of this young man to the city hospital, he was pronounced dead shortly after.
“No connection with previous criminal cases”
A suspect is actively sought by the police, specifies The New Republic. The public prosecutor of Châteauroux, Agnès Auboin, indicated that a judicial investigation had been opened for murder and that the judicial police were responsible for the investigations. “This case has absolutely no connection with previous criminal cases”she emphasized.
A 24-year-old young man was also shot dead in the street this Monday evening in the Saint-Jean district. Ten days earlier, another man was killed at a private party in the same neighborhood. Châteauroux was also marked by the murder of young Mathis, 15, at the end of April. The alleged perpetrator, aged 16, who was under judicial supervision at the time of the murder, was indicted before being placed in pre-trial detention.
