The calm of the village of Spéracèdes and its 1,300 inhabitants, near Grasse (Alpes-Maritimes) was brutally disturbed last Friday evening. A 23-year-old young man was arrested for fatally wounding his mother with several stab wounds, we learned 20 minutes with the Grasse public prosecutor’s office, confirming information from Nice morning. Indicted on Sunday for “murder of an ascendant”, the accused, who suffers from serious psychiatric disorders, was interned.
Admitted to a hospital in Nice
“Following requests for placement in pre-trial detention, he was incarcerated at the Nice remand center and then admitted to psychiatric care at the Saint-Anne hospital in Nice, while remaining under the custody of justice,” specifies the prosecution .
Friday evening, it was he himself who informed the emergency services of what had just happened, apparently in a fit of anger. According to the regional daily, he offered no resistance to the gendarmes who came to apprehend him.