Ten days after the murder of a forty-year-old in Ruffey-lès-Echirey (Côte d'Or), the victim's stepdaughter and her boyfriend were both indicted Thursday evening after being presented to a judge instruction, according to information from our colleagues at Public Goodconfirmed by the Dijon public prosecutor's office this Friday.
The victim died of his injuries in hospital
In accordance with the requisitions of the public prosecutor, the boyfriend was indicted for murder and the daughter-in-law for complicity. The two minors aged 16 were placed in pre-trial detention, said the public prosecutor in Dijon, Olivier Caracotch.
They were taken into custody on Tuesday after the discovery, on October 29, of a 49-year-old woman lying in her blood in the bathtub of her 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 died a few hours later in hospital, the prosecutor said on Thursday.
The daughter-in-law present at the time of the incident
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”, added the prosecutor. The daughter-in-law admitted in police custody “to having discussed the criminal plan with her boyfriend and facilitating his escape”. The origin of the crime remains unknown for the moment but the “significant disagreement” between the victim and her daughter-in-law, due “probably to difficult cohabitation”, was known, according to the prosecutor.
>> Read the article from Public Good.
