The statement made Monday by Edwige Roux-Morizot, public prosecutor of Mulhouse, sends shivers down the spine. A 17-year-old minor “was indicted for murder, preceded or followed by acts of torture and barbarity”. He was remanded in custody.
The facts occurred Thursday morning. A fire broke out shortly before 5 a.m. in a room located on the second floor of a home welcoming in particular retired chibanis, as well as residents in the social reintegration phase. A 59-year-old occupant had died despite the alert given by a neighbor.
Traces of violence on the body
A 17-year-old young man was quickly suspected of having deliberately set fire to the victim’s room. Traces of violence had been noted on the body of the fifty-year-old while the first findings of the investigators had revealed three simultaneous fire starts, accrediting the criminal hypothesis. After the exploitation of the video surveillance of the city and the home, the investigators of the PJ of Mulhouse finally arrested and placed in police custody the young man, accommodated in another home of the city, and who knew the victim for him have rendered service.
“We are on private and personal motivations,” said the prosecutor, calling the suspect’s explanations “vague”. “There was a mess. We do not yet know precisely the nature of this confusion, probably a story of money, ”she added.