Four men aged 20 to 28 were arrested and indicted, suspected of having kidnapped, kidnapped and beaten to death another man in Villers-Cotterêts (Aisne), the Laon prosecutor told AFP on Friday.
The facts date back to January 7, and the victim died three days later.following a trauma” cranio-facial “following violence“, according to prosecutor Guillaume Donnadieu, confirming information from the regional daily The Union. “The preferred hypothesis“the motive of the attackers is one”drug debt context“, he added, specifying that this remained to be confirmed following the investigations.
The four suspects were indicted for “kidnapping, arrest, sequestration followed by death, and for one of them intentional violence aggravated by premeditation and assembly“, added Guillaume Donnadieu.
-One of the accused “is a relative of the victim“, and two of them had criminal records, again according to the prosecutor.
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