Vanessa also suffered sexual violence. A source close to the investigation indicates this Sunday evening that the 31-year-old temporary worker suspected of having kidnapped and killed this 14-year-old schoolgirl on Friday at Tonneins (Lot-et-Garonne) also admitted in police custody to have raped her, confirming information from the newspaper South West.
Arrested Friday evening at his home, the one who brought the investigators to the body of the teenager, hidden in an abandoned house, was transferred Sunday afternoon from the Marmande gendarmerie to the Agen courthouse, to be presented to the investigating judge in charge of the investigation which must continue within the framework of the opening of a judicial investigation. He should be indicted for “kidnapping, forcible confinement, rape and murder of a minor”.
According to sources close to the investigation, the victim was strangled but the Agen prosecutor Olivier Naboulet refused on Saturday to mention a procedure before the autopsy of the body was performed. He also did not say whether the teenager had suffered assaults of a sexual nature, awaiting “further forensic investigations”.
The suspect, a recent father
Always according to South Westthe suspect, a native of Seine-Maritime and socially integrated, lives in Marmande with his partner, mother of a 5-year-old child, and a baby they had just had together.
Olivier Naboulet had revealed on Saturday that the alleged murderer had already been sentenced to fifteen days’ imprisonment with a suspended sentence of two years’ probation for acts of sexual assault on minors dating back to 2006, when he was 15 years old.
Vanessa disappeared on Friday afternoon on her way home from college. His parents gave the alert around 6:45 p.m. Thanks to the use of Tonneins video protection, the gendarmes knocked on the door of the suspect four hours later. He quickly confessed to the murder of the teenager.