A 43-year-old man contacted the gendarmerie to report the crime, accusing one of his friends.
During his hearing, this forty-year-old admitted that he had actually come deliver narcotics in the small town of Gouarec and that he had saw the corpse on this occasion.
Also, a passerby informed the police that she had seen a body on a lawn. The GIGN arrested a 30-year-old individual there in the afternoon, immediately taken into custody.
The context of the death of the septuagenarian remains to be clarified
The suspect said he got “tangled” with the victim on November 12 and struck him, causing him to fall to the ground. “He explained that he then transported, alone, the victim in order to put him at the bottom of the parking lot and had it left thinking he was still alive“reported the prosecutor of Saint-Brieuc.
The autopsy has however highlighted “several fractures and injuries on the face and thorax, as well as wounds to the upper limbs, especially on the hands, done with a sharp object”according to the magistrate.
As for the man who denounced the crime, with whom investigators found a significant quantity of drugs, nearly 24 kg of cannabis resin in particular. He was tried in the context of an appearance on prior admission of guilt et sentenced to 24 months in prison including 6 months suspended, then incarcerated.
The prosecutor's press release finally specifies that there is no no link established between the victim's death and drug trafficking revealed by the investigation.
