A detainee from La Talaudière prison (Loire), suspected of having strangled her co-detainee on the night of Monday to Tuesday, is in police custody at the central police station in Saint-Etienne, we learned from a source judicial.
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The custody of this 30-year-old woman was extended Tuesday evening by the Saint-Etienne prosecution after the autopsy of the victim showing that the death was the result of "strangulation asphyxiation" , said the public prosecutor David Charmatz. The latter announced Tuesday morning that the initial investigation into the causes of the death of a 58-year-old detainee had "been reclassified as an investigation for murder".
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The victim's co-detainee, presented as "psychologically fragile" , according to a union representative of the prison center, "has been serving a sentence of five years since March 29, 2019 of imprisonment for degrading property by dangerous means" , specifies the prosecution Etienne. The victim was serving a criminal sentence.
At around 11:30 p.m. on Monday, a night surveillance team had discovered the lifeless victim and had brought him first aid while awaiting the arrival of the Samu, a spokesman for AFP told AFP. penitentiary Administration.
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