Near Dijon. Two teenagers in police custody for the bloody murder of a forty-year-old

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Two teenagers 16-year-old, the victim’s stepdaughter and her boyfriend, were placed in custody for murderstabbed by a woman in her forties in Ruffey-lès-Echirey in Côte d’Or, the prosecution said this Thursday.

The public prosecutor requested the indictment, and pre-trial detention, of the boyfriend, for assassinationand the daughter-in-law, for complicityindicated the public prosecutor in Dijon, Olivier Caracotch. The custody of the minors, which began on Tuesday after their arrest, should lead to their presentation to a judge with a view to their possible indictment.

On October 29, the 49-year-old victim was discovered lying in his blood in the bathtub of his home in Ruffey-les-Echirey, about twenty minutes north of Dijon. “Seriously injured in the neck” and with “several injuries to the throat”, the forty-year-old is died a few hours later at the hospital, the prosecutor said during a press conference.

The two teenagers present at the time of the events

His daughter-in-law, who lived with the victim and was present at the time of the tragedyhad called for help, saying he had “discovered” the body. But the investigation established that her boyfriend was also there 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 do not dispute » the facts but says he was “in a daze”, adds the prosecutor.

The daughter-in-law admitted in police custody “ having mentioned the criminal project with her boyfriend and facilitated her 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 exoneration.

The origin of the crime still unknown

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 a difficult cohabitation“, was known, according to Mr. Caracotch.

Source: AFP

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