Three people were indicted and placed in pre-trial detention for the death of a man, killed with a hammer during the theft of his car in Rouen at the beginning of December, the prosecution announced on Thursday. The body of a man with significant wounds, particularly to the head, was discovered in an open parking lot near Place Carnot in Rouen on December 7, recalls the Rouen public prosecutor, Frédéric Teillet, in a press release.
The investigation carried out by the territorial direction of the judicial police of Rouen made it possible to identify and arrest in recent days the three presumed perpetrators of this murder, “two men and a woman, consumers of narcotics and frequenting the squats of Rouen,” writes the prosecutor. These three people admitted the facts, underlines Mr. Teillet.
Hammer blows to the head
According to their statements, they had met a few days before the crime and “formed the plan to steal a car and go to Belgium to resell it. » Having spotted a vehicle in a parking lot, they waited for its owner, armed with a mace to knock him out. When he arrived, one of the two men approached the victim and, after a few questions, struck him in the head with a hammer.
The two other alleged perpetrators moved the body after searching it to recover the vehicle keys, cell phone and the victim’s bank card. All three then left the scene in the victim’s vehicle but broke down. At the end of the day on December 7 in Louviers (Eure), they tried to attack a taxi driver, who managed to flee.
They were arrested in two stages, on January 10 and 15. The Rouen public prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation for violent robbery leading to death and attempted robbery with a weapon.