A man is currently in custody in the premises of the judicial police in Lorient (Morbihan). According to The Telegram, this man would be the main suspect in the case of the murder of the young Iris. Information confirmed by a source close to the investigation. The 23-year-old woman was found dead on Saturday May 27 near Lanester. It was walkers who had seen the almost completely naked body in the Blavet, a river crossing Lorient.
Thirteen days after this death described as “violent” by the doctors who autopsied the body, a man was taken into custody. According to West France, he would have been identified thanks to the CCTV images, where we could see the young woman lying on the ground not far from the bar where she had spent the evening. On the images, the PJ investigators would have noticed the presence of a utility. According to the daily, the suspect is registered in the automated judicial file of perpetrators of sexual and violent offenses (Fijais).
Strangulation, sexual intercourse and injuries
A judicial investigation for kidnapping, murder and rape had been opened by the public prosecutor of Lorient on March 2. “These qualifications in no way prejudge the results of the analyzes in progress, in particular with regard to any rape, but they aim to allow the investigating magistrate to be able to carry out the broadest and most complete investigations possible”, had warned Stéphane Kellenberger.
The lifeless body of the young woman had been found almost completely naked and bearing visible marks of violence. The autopsy revealed “traumatic lesions and hematomas on the head and face (shocks by blunt objects, etc.), gripping lesions on the arms, traces of strangulation”. Traces of a recent sexual intercourse had also been discovered, without it being known whether the facts were forced and when they went back.