Horror scene in Eure-et-Loir. After the discovery of the bodies of a retired couple late Wednesday afternoon in their garden located in the small town of Combres, an 18-year-old young man confessed to their murder on Thursday, after being placed in custody. view,
Le Figaro
learned
from the Chartres public prosecutor's office this Friday, April 12. The motive for this double homicide remains unclear: it would be justified by a temporary
“anger”
, while the victims were only passing through.
The secondary property of the two retirees, who resided in Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine) and previously held the positions of nuclear physicist for the husband and biologist for his wife, is located in a tiny hamlet made up of three residences. From one of them, a friend of the couple noticed, late Wednesday afternoon, the presence of two inanimate bodies in her neighbors' garden.
The gendarmes from the La Loupe Brigade, a neighboring village, then went there, and first discovered that the garden gate was open, then that the remains were on the grass, about ten meters apart. the other. The door to the house is nevertheless closed, and no trace of a search or break-in is noted. The gendarmes also establish that
“mowing of the lawn was in progress at the time of the events, the mower having been found against a hedge and stopped approximately five meters”
from the body of the husband, specifies the prosecution in a press release.
“Swollen and sunken face”
For the authorities, the case leaves no room for doubt: it is a double murder. The research brigade of the Nogent-le-Rotrou company was immediately co-initiated with the
“blatant criminal investigation”
, alongside the soldiers of the Orléans Research Section. According to examinations carried out on site, the two victims
“presented a swollen and sunken face”
as well as numerous wounds caused by a stab weapon, particularly on the neck.
“The autopsies of the bodies carried out (this Friday) make it possible to determine that, for the two bodies, the origin of death lies in the stab wounds noted by the forensic doctor on the jugulars and the
carotid artery
,”
details the parquet.
The police quickly began investigations. By questioning other neighbors, living 230 meters from the scene of the murder, the gendarmes learned that their son, aged 18, unknown to the justice system and unemployed, had gone out for a run late Tuesday afternoon. .
“Between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., his mother heard (...) a man's voice saying “stop, stop””
, covered by the noise of a lawnmower. The young man reportedly returned a few minutes later, cleaning his pants and shoes. When investigators arrived, these clothes were drying. The police discovered traces of blood there, then sent them for analysis to a laboratory.
“Food Divergence”
On Thursday, the young man was taken into police custody. Heard, he admitted to being the author of the double homicide.
“He explained that he had an argument with his father over a difference in food. He said he was very angry, so much so that he left his house and, passing his neighbors' house, he first attacked the gentleman then the lady who was leaving her house (.. .) with an oyster knife type knife (which was) found by the investigators on the instructions of the young man
,” argued the prosecution. After the double murder, the young man
“went home, then watched a video (before) going to bed”
.
The alleged killer will be brought before the Chartes public prosecutor's office on Saturday. A judicial investigation will be opened for
“intentional homicides preceded, accompanied or followed by another crime”
. Its aim will be in particular to
“understand the personality of the young man, the motive which presided over the acts and the exact conditions in which this double crime could have been committed”
, underlines the prosecutor of Chartes, Frédéric Chevallier.