The Béziers public prosecutor's office announced on Monday, December 2, the indictment of a 22-year-old woman for murder, and her placement in pre-trial detention. She is suspected of having killed her next door neighbor, aged 61.
Confuse
Prosecutor Raphaël Balland explained: “delivering successive versions, she confusedly asserted that it was an accident that occurred during an altercation between her and the deceased about the behavior he allegedly had towards her daughter “. In comments reported by French media as 20 Minuteshe added that according to the suspect, “her neighbor then allegedly physically attacked her while holding a kitchen knife with which he ultimately got involved in the fight”. While in police custody, the woman, arrested on the evening of Saturday, November 30 near the building, bloodied and accompanied by her six-year-old daughter, denied having intentionally killed her neighbor.
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Already sentenced
The 22-year-old mother was already sentenced in October to 15 months in prison for having left the country with her daughter placed between 2021 and 2023. Saturday evening, the sixty-year-old neighbor was found in her apartment, fatally injured in the carotid artery by a stab. Blood stained the stairwell and the suspect's home. The prosecutor indicated that the investigation, placed under the authority of an investigating judge, aims to determine the precise circumstances of this tragedy. This process could last several months.
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