The Aix-en-Provence prosecutor's office announced Wednesday that it had opened a judicial investigation for “ intentional homicide ” after the discovery of two bodies in Revest-du-Bion (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), two months after the disappearance of two friends from Aude.
"We presume that the bodies found are those of the two missing persons , " the Aix-en-Provence public prosecutor, Achille Kiriakides, told AFP, confirming information from the regional daily Nice-Matin. The autopsy of the bodies of the victims, found on Tuesday by the gendarmes, has not yet been carried out, he said.
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The two young men Gabriel Ferchal, 25, and Julien Boumlil, 26, from Malves-en-Minervois (Aude), had gone to Rivest-du-Bion by car and had disappeared the same day they left this village in early December. The cell phone of one of them had bound a few hours later in Rognes, in the Bouches-du-Rhône. An investigation for "abduction, forcible confinement without voluntary release" had been opened after this disappearance and entrusted to an investigating judge. It was extended to the count of "intentional homicide" after the discovery of the two bodies.
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