Two 16-year-old teenagers were placed in police custody after the discovery, at the end of October, of the lifeless body of a forty-year-old woman in Ruffey-lès-Échirey (Côte-d’Or), the prosecution indicated this Thursday November 7. The two detained the victim’s stepdaughter and her boyfriend.
The public prosecutor of Dijon, Olivier Caracotch, indicated this Thursday, November 7 that two teenagers, aged 16, were arrested and placed in police custody for the “assassination” with a knife of a forty-year-old woman. in Ruffey-Lès-Échirey (Côte-d’Or). The suspects are none other than the victim’s daughter-in-law and her boyfriend.
The custody of the two minors began on Tuesday November 5 and was due to end this Thursday. At the end of this, the two suspects will be presented to a judge with a view to their possible indictment. For its part, the public prosecutor requested the indictment, and provisional detention, of the boyfriend, for murder, and of the daughter-in-law, for complicity, noted the public prosecutor in Dijon, Olivier Caracotch, whose the comments were reported by AFP.
The events took place on October 29. That day, the 49-year-old victim was discovered lying in his blood in the bathtub at his home. It was the daughter-in-law, present on the scene at the time of the tragedy, who alerted the emergency services, saying she had “discovered” the body.
A “significant disagreement” between the victim and her daughter-in-law at the origin of the tragedy?
The victim was “seriously injured in the neck” and had “several injuries to his throat”. She was then taken to hospital before succumbing to her injuries a few hours later.
An investigation was then opened. This made it possible to establish that the stepdaughter’s boyfriend was also present during the events 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 project 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 “undoubtedly to difficult cohabitation”, was known, according to magistrate Olivier Caracotch.
