Judicial information entrusted to an investigating judge in Périgueux (Dordogne) must be opened on Monday, the public prosecutor Solène Belaouar said on Sunday, the day after the discovery of the body of a 47-year-old woman in Montpon- Menesterol. Three people were still in custody on Sunday evening as part of this investigation.
A 55-year-old man arrested on Saturday admitted to being the author of the fatal shot that hit the victim during a “game” where she had put on a bulletproof vest. The host of the “festive” evening where the drama took place said he fired a shotgun, which investigators found at his home on his instructions.
The body of this woman, mother of three children, was discovered on Saturday near the cemetery of this town near the department of Gironde. The body had a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
The main suspect known to justice
According to the prosecution, the forties would have been reached “during a game during which (she) would have put on a bulletproof vest before being shot”. The main suspect is known to the courts for traffic offenses related in particular to alcohol consumption. He presented Saturday morning “an advanced alcoholic state” which had prevented his immediate hearing by the investigators.
“It appears that the shooter and the victim did not know each other beforehand,” the prosecutor said in a statement. The two other suspects present during this evening are an 18-year-old young man, with no criminal record, friend of both the alleged shooter and the victim; and a third man arrested on Saturday evening, aged 20 and not known to justice.
The presence of these three men at the time of the events is notably established by videos recorded by one of the suspects. At this stage of the investigations, it was decided to open tomorrow morning a judicial investigation entrusted to an investigating judge of the Périgueux judicial court against the three people currently in police custody.
The charges against each of them will be “to be determined with precision” on Monday at the end of police custody, added Solène Belaouar.