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Bulgarian sentenced to life for the murder of a septuagenarian in 2013

2020-02-07T09:49:22.106Z



A 32-year-old Bulgarian was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Saône-et-Loire assize court for the murder of a septuagenarian in 2013 in Autun (Saône-et-Loire) and for attempted murder and rape of the latter's wife.

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The verdict, accompanied by a 22-year security period and a definitive ban on French territory, is in accordance with the requisitions of the public prosecutor. He was released late Thursday evening after a trial of almost two weeks in which Oleg Chikov, loquacious, disputed the perpetrator.

Incarcerated in Bulgaria where he is known for similar acts, the accused had been handed over to the French authorities during the hearing and must return to his country, said the public prosecutor Damien Savarzeix. The French sentence may be carried out later or be executed in Bulgaria, according to the magistrate who recalls that Mr. Chikov also has the possibility of appealing.

On October 5, 2013, a 74-year-old pensioner was found dead at his home, severely beaten on the head, while his wife, 63 years old at the time of the events, was seriously injured, beaten on the head. also.

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It was she who warned the emergency services after having been unconscious for a long time, but she could not tell the investigators the events of the previous evening, the blow to the head having made her lose all memory of the facts. Medical examinations had revealed traces of rape. The weapon was not found, the experts having evoked a hammer or a mass, but the investigators had discovered at the scene of the crime genetic traces compatible with the DNA of the suspect.

His full profile had been found on a handkerchief and a wipe lost in the garden of another house located nearby, the same evening the target of an intrusion attempt. Mr. Chikov, who lived in Autun with his father and his brother at the time of the events, had been handed over to the French authorities for the first time in 2016, in particular for a reconstruction. He was already disputing his involvement.

The families of the victims are "relieved by the guilty decision when the acquittal was pleaded by the defense," said Samuel Estève, lawyer for children and grandchildren of the septuagenarian.

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Source: lefigaro

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