stepfather indicted for murder

Young Emilio, aged 14, was found dead in the family home in the Pyrénées-Orientales. His mother had already been indicted on Monday.

A new indictment in the case of Emilio's death. The stepfather of the 14-year-old teenager found dead last week in the family home in Alénya, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, was indicted for murder of a 15-year-old minor and imprisoned Thursday evening, we learned Agence France presse (AFP) Friday October 31 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 told AFP. , Nicolas Brignol.

Emilio's mother was also 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.

Not unknown to justice

The father-in-law, “already convicted of violence and offenses against drug legislation”, 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”, the prosecution also affirmed.

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 “that he had 'smoked' his son-in-law”. 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.