The wife and stepson of a man found dead this weekend in Verdun (Meuse) were indicted for homicide and placed in pre-trial detention. The investigation into the causes of this man’s death concluded that a criminal act had been committed.

The wife and son-in-law admitted to the police “that the man had not fallen alone,” Sophie Partouche, public prosecutor in Verd Un, told L'Est Républicain. There would have been an altercation and he would have “ended up falling over”