The scene is terrifying. Sunday morning in Talant, in the suburbs of Dijon, a sexagenarian was found dead. He had been beaten with a baseball bat and then the victim of five stab wounds, including one “planted in the skull”, explained the public prosecutor of the city, Olivier Caracotch. Following this, a 20-year-old young man, the victim’s son-in-law, was indicted on Tuesday in Dijon for murder, the prosecution said. He is suspected of this violence, which occurred following a new argument between the two men.
For about ten years, the stepson had shared accommodation with his stepfather and his mother, who were married. But the 61-year-old father-in-law had been “in conflict for years with the son-in-law whom he was asking to leave the home, threatening him verbally on the background of excessive alcohol consumption”.
He acknowledged the facts
The young man, who admitted the facts, is not known to the police, nor to justice, nor to social services. He explained his acting out by the accumulation of threats and humiliations “from his stepfather, but he specified that it had remained verbal and not physical harassment.
However, investigations are underway to determine whether violence was exercised by the stepfather, in particular on the mother of the stepson. The latter indeed indicated that he had remained at the family home despite the behavior of the stepfather and unlike his sister who had fled the home, in order, he said, to “protect his mother”. The suspect, indicted for murder, is liable to a maximum of thirty years in prison.