We know more about the sordid news story which affected the small town of Poligny in the Jura. A 35-year-old man was indicted for “intentional homicide in a state of obvious intoxication” and placed in pre-trial detention, two days after a 50-year-old man was found dead in an apartment, with a swollen face. , we learned on Wednesday from the Besançon public prosecutor’s office.
The suspect, who admits to having killed the victim, made “statements consistent with the forensic findings”, while two other people, who had also been taken into police custody, were exonerated, said the public prosecutor of Besançon, Etienne Manteaux. Presented to court on Wednesday, the man was placed in pre-trial detention, in accordance with the prosecutor’s orders. If he admits to having carried out “fatal blows”, namely intentional violence resulting in death without the intention of causing it. however, the judicial investigation was opened for “intentional homicide in a state of obvious intoxication”.
A context of “very significant alcohol consumption”
As a reminder, the facts took place in a context of “very significant alcohol consumption at the home of a young woman”, specified the magistrate, indicating that the motive remained “very confused”, in a context of marginality. “There was alcoholism, they were together in the apartment during the day, the suspect left the apartment, then he came back and hit the victim”, essentially with his bare hands, the suspect being him – even injured in both hands, detailed the prosecutor.
The victim presents “a really significant impact on the face (…) particularly at the nose”, which “resulted in blood discharge”. His death would result from this crash but also from suffocation due to the flow of blood, according to the magistrate. The deceased fifty-year-old was found Monday evening at the home of a young woman, “who is not involved in the facts,” said Etienne Manteaux. She had called the emergency services, when they arrived, another man, also exonerated, was trying to give the victim a cardiac massage. The man indicted and imprisoned had “his hands on his head”, saying: “Arrest me, I am the author”. He has already been convicted nine times.
The Lons-le-Saunier public prosecutor’s office, initially in charge of the investigation, resigned in favor of that of Besançon, where the accused was presented to justice on Wednesday.