The body of the victim, a 64-year-old retired soldier, had been found undressed, last August in a meeting place in Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle). More than two months later, a suspect was indicted for intentional homicide and remanded to pre-trial detention, our colleagues at the republican east.
The 35-year-old was confused thanks to theDNA found on the victim’s clothes and nails. The judicial police, in charge of the investigation as part of a judicial investigation, had placed him in custody on Monday.
A version of the facts that questions
This man, born in 1987, lived in a house near the place where the body was discovered, and was already known in the courts for “acts of violence” related to his drug addiction, the prosecution said Thursday. The suspect told investigators that he was approached at night by the victim “while he was walking”, who offered him cocaine.
After consuming it, he explained that he felt bad and that the victim would “take advantage of this weakness to force him to have oral sex”. The suspect would then have rejected him, denying himself to be homosexual, and beaten “15 times” before “putting him on the ground”. Then he fled, stealing the victim’s purse who was still alive, according to his account of him.
The victim was unknown to the justice system. Her wife had told investigators that her husband “had homosexual practices from time to time, accepted by this united couple”, also indicated François Pérain. According to the investigation, the victim regularly injected a mixture of GHB and other drugs. The exploitation of her phone also revealed that she “frequented dating sites,” according to the indictment.
The version of the facts of the mis en cause “however raises questions” because “it does not correspond to the medico-legal findings”, according to the prosecution. The body, discovered by two wanderers in a place “known for sexual encounters”, “showed no signs of violence” but the autopsy had revealed “a fracture of the hyoid bone, characteristic of an act of strangulation”, he said. specified the prosecutor, François Pérain, during a press conference.
