The son of the sixty-year-old found dead at her home in Gers on Monday was indicted for “homicide by ascendant” this Thursday, April 11. He was first taken to hospital, before being arrested on Wednesday as part of a first investigation opened by the Auch public prosecutor's office for "homicide of ascendant" The victim's son was then brought before the Agen public prosecutor’s office and asserted his right to silence before the investigating judge.
Currently in pre-trial detention in Mont-de-Marsan, he risks life imprisonment. The victim herself who called the firefighters, according to our colleagues at La Dépêche. When the police arrived, the thirty- year-old was “in a state of agitation” It had to be controlled, our colleagues report. The court relinquished jurisdiction this Thursday in favor of that of Agen, which has jurisdiction in criminal matters. According to the first elements of the investigation, the sixty year old was allegedly killed with a knife. “It is a priori, based on the findings, a death which was caused by stab wounds,” Clémence Meyer, public prosecutor of Auch.