During an altercation with his next-door neighbor in Béziers, Saturday November 30, a 61-year-old man died after receiving a stab wound to the carotid artery. His next-door neighbor, arrested shortly after, was indicted for murder and imprisoned following his custody.
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He was lying in a pool of blood. On November 30, 2024, in the early evening, emergency services intervened in a building in downtown Béziers to try to resuscitate a 61-year-old man. He was fatally injured in the neck by a stab wound.
His next-door neighbor, a 22-year-old woman, also covered in blood and accompanied by her six-year-old daughter, was arrested by police officers from the Béziers police station in the street near their building.
“On the afternoon of December 2, 2024, at the end of her police custody, the young woman accused was presented by the prosecution before an investigating magistrate of the judicial court of Béziers, and indicted for murder She was then placed in pre-trial detention. specifies Rapahël Balland, public prosecutor of Béziers, in a press release.
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Before the investigators and the investigating magistrate, the young woman denied having intentionally killed her next-door neighbor. Very confused and giving successive versions, she affirmed that it was an accident which occurred during an altercation between her and the deceased about the behavior he allegedly had towards her daughter.
Her neighbor allegedly physically attacked her while holding a kitchen knife with which he ultimately got involved in the fight.
Raphaël Balland, public prosecutor of BéziersCommuniqué
The autopsy revealed a deep stab wound having notably severed the carotid artery, leaving the victim with no chance of survival. The sixty-year-old had never been the subject of legal proceedings.
Conversely, the young woman was recently sentenced on October 18, 2024 for child abduction by an ascendant, to 15 months suspended imprisonment, for having fled to Spain between September 2021 and May 2023 with her daughter , although it had been entrusted by a children's judge to the Hérault Departmental Council.
