a couple indicted for the stabbing murder of two men

A man and a woman aged 26 are suspected of having killed two men with a knife after spending the evening with them, in Finistère. They are suspected of having then set fire to their home.

A man and a 26-year-old woman, a couple, were indicted on Thursday November 21 for the murders of two men, followed by the fire of an apartment in a public housing project in Douarnenez, in Finistère, announced the Brest prosecutor's office.

The two suspects, born in 1998 and already convicted of acts of intentional violence, were arrested on Monday in Perpignan, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, then placed in police custody.

These are “investigations carried out in the immediate environment of the victims”, two men aged 44 and 61 years old killed with knives, which made it possible to establish “that a couple had spent the evening preceding the facts” in their company, before disappearing “suddenly”, according to a press release from the prosecution.

The interviews of the suspects “as well as the clues collected” made it possible “to reinforce the suspicions and the clues in favor of their presence in the apartment as well as their participation in the facts”, specified the prosecutor Camille Miansoni, in his press release.

Placed in pre-trial detention

Presented to an investigating judge, the suspects were indicted for murder, murder of a vulnerable person, alteration of a crime scene and damage to the property of others by dangerous means.

Placed in pre-trial detention, they “run the risk of life imprisonment”, underlined the prosecution.

According to Le Télégramme, the 26-year-old woman was indicted on the same charges. On suspicion of murder, however, she is the only one to be indicted for repeat murder, having already been convicted for acts of this nature.

One of the victims marked with 16 stab wounds

The gendarmes discovered the facts on November 9 around 6:20 a.m., when they spotted, during a patrol, smoke coming from a HLM apartment located near the port of Tréboul, in Douarnenez.

The 44-year-old man was discovered in the street at the foot of the building, shirtless, barefoot, wearing bloody jeans. Victim of 16 stab wounds, he died shortly after emergency services arrived. The body of the 61-year-old victim was discovered in the burned and completely destroyed apartment. The autopsy revealed that he also died from multiple stab wounds.

Known to the gendarmerie services for drug trafficking, the 61-year-old victim was placed under guardianship, bedridden daily in a medical bed and “could only move with difficulty”, according to a previous press release from the Quimper prosecutor's office.

“It was known as being likely to usually welcome idle people, looking for narcotics, often alcoholics, thereby causing numerous neighborhood disturbances,” according to the same source. A knife with traces of blood was discovered outside the home, in the grass.