On January 25, 2025, the main suspect in the double murder in Calvados was arrested while trying to escape a police check in Pas-de-Calais. He is suspected of killing a young couple earlier this week. Maëva and Martin had disappeared before being found dead.
The main suspect would have come into contact with the two victims on the day of their disappearance. The next day, his mother reported that two bodies were in her garden. A man wanted after the death of two young people in the Deauville region (Calvados) was arrested during the night from Friday to Saturday in Pas-de-Calais, reported to l’AFP the public prosecutor of Caen, Joël Garrigue.
“My son did something stupid”
On Wednesday, the disappearance of Maëva and Marin, in Normandy, was reported by their relatives. After a day of searching, authorities received a call from the mother of a young man who had been in contact with them during the day, reports The Voice of the North.
“My son did something stupid,” she declared before pointing out the two bodies buried in her garden. During this time, the suspect had left his mother’s home “potentially armed and dangerous”. An important device had been deployed.
The main suspect arrested
“I confirm his arrest last night in Pas-de-Calais”, declared Joël Garrigue. While trying to escape a police check, the man lost control of his vehicle and was arrested in Pas-de-Calais, according to a source close to the case.
The bodies of a man and a woman aged 20, a couple, who disappeared on Wednesday, were found on Thursday in Saint-Martin-aux-Chartrains, a town near Deauville.
-“A man aged around thirty, residing in the town of Saint-Martin-aux-Chartrains, who would have been in contact with the victims on the day of January 22, is currently actively sought by the national gendarmerie”the Caen prosecutor said on Friday, specifying that this man was “potentially armed and dangerous”.
“No hypothesis is excluded”
The autopsy of the deceased young man confirmed that he “presented head trauma and traces of violent blows to the face” and that he “was the victim of a gunshot.” The autopsy of his partner will take place in “early next week”added the prosecutor.
The Caen public prosecutor’s office said Thursday evening that it ignored “the circumstances in which these two young people were killed” and the possible motivations for the double homicide. “No hypothesis is excluded,” he had indicated.
A judicial investigation was opened against X on charges of murder and investigations are continuing under the direction of an investigating judge.
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