He had fled, leaving his mother in a pool of blood, dead. Investigators found him the day after the murder at his father’s house in Vitry-sur-Seine (Val-de-Marne) and questioned him in police custody for 48 hours. This 23-year-old young man turned out to be not very talkative, but the incriminating elements did lead the Nanterre prosecution to present him to the investigating judge in charge of the investigations.
This Saturday, the victim’s son was indicted for “murder on ascendant” and placed in pre-trial detention.
The psychiatric expertise which will be ordered within the framework of the judicial investigation will undoubtedly make it possible to understand what prompted this 23-year-old young man to plant a dozen times the blade of a knife in the body of his mother, touching vital areas. The results of the autopsy, which will establish precisely the number of blows and the fatal injuries, should be known at the beginning of the week.
Murder weapon not found
On Wednesday evening, it was a relative of the victim, who presented himself as his roommate, who discovered the corpse bathing in a pool of blood, in the apartment occupied by this 46-year-old woman on the ground floor of a residence in rue Etienne-Dolet. A woman who was doing badly, no longer working, drinking and using drugs, according to the first police investigations.
The roommate was taken into custody before being completely exonerated. The study of the family environment of the victim quickly led to the son, who had simply taken refuge with his father. Investigators did not find the murder weapon there, which the suspect got rid of.
