The lifeless body of the sexagenarian was discovered on Wednesday, at the end of the afternoon, in the park of the castle of Keravéon in Erdeven, a small town between Vannes and Lorient (Morbihan). This Sunday, the public prosecutor of Lorient announces that a suspect has been arrested. He is an 18-year-old young man residing in a town near the scene of the tragedy. He was indicted for murder.
During his police custody, the young man recognized “quite generally the facts, without really explaining them” and affirmed “not to know the victim and to have had, beforehand, no incident with her”, indicated Stéphane Kellenberger , public prosecutor of Lorient.
He used a “hammer-like tool”
The autopsy carried out on the victim made it possible to identify “wounds, exclusively at the level of the skull and the face of the victim and apparently caused with the help of blunt objects”, explained the prosecutor, specifying that “a a bloody sledgehammer and a glass bottle were found at the scene.
The respondent, “originally from the region”, and who has no “particular background”, indicated “having used a hammer-type tool, previously taken with him”, further specifies the prosecution. . He was remanded in custody and faces life imprisonment.
According to the Lorient prosecutor’s office, the victim, aged 63, lived in Erdeven.