The body of a 49-year-old woman, seriously injured by stab wounds lying in her blood at home in her bathtub, was discovered on October 29 at her home in Ruffey-lès-Echirey, located about twenty minutes from north of Dijon. (Côte d’Or)
“Seriously injured” and with “several injuries to her throat”, the forty-year-old died a few hours later in hospital. This Thursday, we learned that two 16-year-old teenagers, the victim’s stepdaughter and her boyfriend, were placed in police custody on suspicion of this assassination, the prosecutor’s office said on Thursday. The public prosecutor requested the indictment, and provisional detention, of the boyfriend, for murder, and of the daughter-in-law, for complicity, indicated the public prosecutor in Dijon, Olivier Caracotch. The custody of the minors, which began on Tuesday after their arrest, should end this Thursday and lead to their presentation to a judge with a view to their possible indictment.
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His daughter-in-law, who lived with the victim and was present at the time of the tragedy, called emergency services, saying she had “discovered” the body. But the investigation established that her boyfriend was also present during the incident and that he would have carried out the fatal blows. The weapon, a pocket knife, was discovered buried in a wood, on his instructions. The minor “does not dispute” the facts but says he was “in a daze”, adds the prosecutor. The daughter-in-law admitted in police custody “to having discussed the criminal plan with her boyfriend and facilitating his escape”. The latter had been picked up at the scene of the crime by his mother, who had come to pick him up. The latter, also placed in police custody, was finally exonerated.
The origin of the crime remains unknown for the moment, theft or fraudulent interest seeming to be excluded. On the other hand, the “significant disagreement” between the victim and her daughter-in-law, due “probably to difficult cohabitation”, was known, according to the prosecutor.
