On October 10, 2019, the Bordeaux police station –
- On Saturday April 10, a 68-year-old retiree was discovered dead, after a beating, in a peaceful residence in Floirac.
- Five suspects, four men and a woman, were arrested Thursday and Friday.
- The four men, including one already known to justice for acts of violence, were indicted and imprisoned overnight, announced this Sunday the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office at “20 Minutes”.
It is a case that the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office does not hesitate to describe as “sordid”. On Saturday April 10, a 68-year-old retiree was found dead, beaten up, in a peaceful residence in Floirac, in the suburbs of Bordeaux.
The investigation led to the arrest in recent days of five young people from the Bordeaux metropolis, four men and a woman, placed in police custody Thursday and Friday by the police of the criminal brigade of the judicial police of Bordeaux. This Sunday morning, the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office tells 20 minutes that the four men were indicted on the count of intentional homicide and placed in pre-trial detention late at night from Saturday to Sunday. The young woman, “against whom there are currently insufficient charges, has been placed under the status of assisted witness. A judicial investigation was opened on Saturday.
“Homicide committed with suddenness and brutality”
In a press release released this Sunday at noon, the public prosecutor of Bordeaux Frédérique Porterie specifies that it was around 7 p.m. on Saturday April 10, “when an inhabitant of the Edgar Degas residence in Floirac heard a thud that seemed to come from the technical rooms (…) He left his apartment and then discovered the body of a man, quickly identified as that of a resident of the premises. Lying on the ground and on his back, the victim presented a significant facial trauma. Despite the attempt to resuscitate the neighbors who came to assist the first witness of the scene and the rapid arrival on the scene of the firefighters, the victim’s death was noted a few minutes later. “
The medical examiner required to carry out the lifting of the body “excluded any accidental cause of death by fall and noted that the death was due to one or more intentional blows which resulted in fractures to the nose, eyes and lips. “The presence of bloodstains projecting on the wall” suggested that the victim could have been struck while she was lying on the ground. “
The hypothesis of a bad meeting with a person who would have been disturbed and surprised by the presence of the victim was quickly privileged, “the homicide of the victim having obviously been committed with suddenness and brutality. The autopsy of the victim confirmed this thesis, no defensive lesions having been noted. The forensic doctor concluded that he died of post-traumatic cerebral edema following a major facial crash, a consequence of the action of third parties.
They explain their gesture by “a so-called inappropriate words of the victim”
The Tuesday following the facts, the police took the testimony of a person wishing to remain anonymous indicating that an individual living in Cenon would have boasted of being the author of the facts. Judicial police investigators identified a 21-year-old man as likely to match the individual denounced. He was arrested Thursday in Andernos and placed in police custody. Two other defendants, aged 21 and 20, were arrested in Bordeaux the same day and placed respectively in police custody. The next day, a couple aged 20 and 21 reported to the police station and were in turn taken into police custody.
“The five respondents acknowledged their presence at the scene and admitted to having beaten the victim, with the exception of the only young woman present on the scene who denied any brutality against the victim. They explained their gesture by a supposedly inappropriate words of the victim towards the young woman of the group and denied any homicidal intention. “
One of the suspects already known for acts of violence
At this stage of the investigation, the suspects “absolutely do not recognize the murder; they recognize at least acts of violence ”indicates the public prosecutor of Bordeaux to 20 minutes. “We are on a gratuitous act which starts, according to their point of view, from a misunderstanding between them and the victim. »Misunderstanding that would have triggered an outburst of violence against the sexagenarian.
Among the suspects, only one has a criminal record. “It would be the main author,” the prosecution continues. He is a former minor who has already been known in the children’s court, who has already been convicted and imprisoned for acts of violence, and he was to be tried again in June for similar acts. We are on a repeater’s profile. The others, no, they are idle young people. “The instruction will make it possible to determine the role of each of the protagonists” continues the prosecution.