Untraceable for six days, then arrested on Saturday morning in Montpellier, young Valentin confessed. “I confirm that he confessed to the gendarmes to being the author of the murder of his parents”, indicated this Sunday morning Eric Vaillant, the public prosecutor of Grenoble, adding that he “will not say more at this stage “.
On Monday, a violent fire broke out in Châteauvilain, a village in Isère, between Lyon and Grenoble. Two charred bodies were found in the rubble of the house, where a couple and their two children lived. The oldest boy had left home the day before to go to Lyon, where he is studying.
Valentin, the youngest aged 15, had been missing since the tragedy. The investigators had also issued a wanted notice at the end of the week in order to find him as a “witness”.