A minor, suspected of the murder of a 17-year-old boy whose body was found buried in a field in Yzosse (Landes), was indicted on Tuesday "for murder and escape during police custody" , and his girlfriend for "complicity in assassination" . “I seized the investigating judge of an opening of judicial information against ' J.' counts of murder and escape during police custody and against 'M.' of the chief of complicity in the assassination, " said in a statement Céline Bucau, deputy prosecutor of Mont-de-Marsan, the Dax prosecution having relinquished Tuesday morning the case.
The 16-year-old boy was placed in pre-trial detention on Tuesday evening and the girl, the same age, under judicial supervision, two days after their arrest. Before his presentation to the judge, the young man escaped Tuesday early in the afternoon for about twenty minutes from the gendarmerie of Dax where he was in police custody, we learned from the gendarmes. While in the courtyard, he ran into the streets of Dax where he was quickly caught by the gendarmes.
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Arrested Sunday with his girlfriend, this minor admitted to having "squeezed the neck" of the victim and "hit his head on the ground" . The body was found at the place designated by this young person. According to a statement by the prosecutor Rodolphe Jarry, the two minors had agreed "to meet the victim on Saturday evening February 1 in Yzosse, in an isolated place, by making him believe that only (the girl) s 'would present there' but 'it was actually agreed' between the two of them that it was the boyfriend who would go 'alone to this meeting' .
During her police custody, the girl explained that the appointment should allow her boyfriend to give "a good correction" to the victim, while conceding that he had repeatedly confided to him his will to "Kill the latter" . The boyfriend, who went to the meeting with a pair of gloves and a stick, maintains that the meeting was simply for the purpose of obtaining explanations from the other adolescent.
According to Rodolphe Jarry, the boyfriend said that once there he had "quickly argued with (the victim) and that a fight would have broken out quickly, at the end of which he would tighten the neck of the victim before repeatedly hitting her head on the ground. Then, noting the death, he decided to bury his body in a field, a few meters away. ”
The father of the victim had reported the disappearance of his son Sunday afternoon, after the latter, who left on Saturday evening, had not returned to the family home.