Three days after Matisse’s murder, investigations continue. Suspected of having stabbed the 16-year-old boy several times on Saturday in Châteauroux, a 15-year-old young man was indicted on Monday and a judicial investigation opened, the public prosecutor said in a press release. of Bourges.
“Of Afghan nationality and in a regular situation on the national territory”, the mother of the suspect, aged 37, is being prosecuted for “intentional violence not having resulted in total incapacity for work with this circumstance that the facts were committed against a vulnerable person,” continued Céline Visiedo, who took over the investigation opened for intentional homicide by the Châteauroux public prosecutor’s office, and entrusted to the judicial police.
” A punch “
According to the magistrate, Matisse and the suspect “knew each other”. In the afternoon, the two boys crossed paths and “mutually insulted” each other, then got into a fight. According to the suspect, during this confrontation, the victim gave him “a punch”. “My brother couldn’t bear to have received blows from Matisse,” explained to Parisian the defendant’s older brother. “He had a nosebleed and it made him crazy. He went to get a knife and wanted revenge. »
Thus, “seized by anger, he went to his building to grab a knife blade, and struck the teenager several times before fleeing,” confirmed the public prosecutor. The autopsy revealed that one of the blows “hit directly the heart” of the victim, who died in hospital in the evening despite the rapid intervention of emergency services. The investigation will notably have to “clarify the origin of the brawl and the personality of the author” of the fatal blows.
“Slaps”
“The minor’s mother, who was following him, in turn slapped the victim,” Céline Visiedo also underlined. The suspect, who has no criminal record, was arrested on Saturday around 8:45 p.m., less than an hour after her son, and was placed in police custody like him.
“The circumstances of the tragedy happened very quickly, she has difficulty retracing the thread of events,” declared on BFMTV his lawyer, Me Nathalie Gomot-Pinard. His client admits “having dealt blows” to Matisse.
The mother and son were presented Monday to an investigating judge from the criminal division of the Bourges judicial court, then to a judge of freedoms and detention. If the teenager was incarcerated, his mother was placed under judicial supervision. She is prohibited from leaving the Indre department and from entering into contact with her son, and is required to periodically report to the Châteauroux police department.