They had contacted the victim via a dating site. Two men and a woman were indicted and imprisoned for the murder of a 65-year-old man whose body was found wrapped in duvets inside an abandoned apartment in Saint-Étienne, he said. we learned on Friday from the prosecution.
The three people were indicted on Wednesday and Thursday for murder, kidnapping and kidnapping, organized theft and receiving stolen goods, and placed in pre-trial detention, indicates the Saint-Étienne public prosecutor's office, adding that "the investigations are continuing following letters rogatory" . Two other individuals were indicted for concealment of organized theft and placed under judicial supervision in the same case.
Saint-Etienne drug addict community
According to the prosecution, some of the accused “are known for numerous acts and operate in the drug community”. The arrests took place last Sunday and Monday in the Saint-Etienne region, as part of the investigation led by the research section of the Lyon gendarmerie.
The cause of death of this 65-year-old resident of Saint-Galmier (Loire), reported missing by his family in mid-February, must still be clarified, said a source close to the investigation. The alleged murderer, aged around fifty, and his acolytes had notably seized the bank card and the car, found burned, of the victim, with whom they had entered into contact via a dating site, we specify from the same source.
The body of the sixty-year-old was found on March 13 in a state of decomposition by residents of a building in the Saint-Etienne district of Terrenoire, in an abandoned apartment. It was rolled up in two duvets, themselves tied with a rope which kept the whole thing tight, according to the Saint-Etienne flooring.