The stepfather of the 14-year-old boy found dead last week in the family home in Alénya (Pyrénées-Orientales) was indicted for murder of a 15-year-old minor and imprisoned on Thursday October 31, we learned Friday with the prosecution.
Presented to the investigating judge late Thursday afternoon, the 42-year-old man “remained silent (…) during his interrogation”the deputy public prosecutor of Perpignan, Nicolas Brignol, told AFP.
The teenager's mother (named Emilio) was indicted for “murder of a 15-year-old minor” and imprisoned on Monday. The couple was arrested last week in Val-d'Oise, where they had fled.
A man reported that the father-in-law had “smoked his son-in-law”
The father-in-law, “already convicted of violence and drug offenses”had been “hospitalized following drug absorption before the arrival of investigators”the prosecutor indicated on Friday October 25.
For her part, the mother, “never convicted”had been “placed in police custody in Argenteuil”, before being brought back to the Pyrénées-Orientales.
She was a childminder in the neighboring town of Saint-Cyprien, by the sea, also in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
The family was “known for procedures linked to a conflictual separation of the parental couple”had also affirmed the prosecution.
The case began with the revelations of a friend of the father-in-law, who came to the Argenteuil police station to report that the 42-year-old man had confided to him “having 'smoked' his stepson”.
The autopsy carried out on Monday at the Montpellier University Hospital confirmed that a multitude of violent blows were inflicted on the victim's entire body.
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