The fifty-year-old who gave himself up on Sunday to the gendarmes by accusing himself of having killed his parents and ex-parents-in-law in the Eastern Pyrenees to whom he vowed a " fierce hatred " was indicted and imprisoned on Tuesday, August 24, according to a judicial source. After prolonged police custody, the suspect was indicted on charges of murder and placed in pre-trial detention, as requested earlier by the prosecution.
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The alleged assassin admitted " having deliberately given the death to the four elderly people, with premeditation ", Saturday and Sunday, had previously specified in a press release the deputy prosecutor of Perpignan, Luc-André Lenormand.
"A fierce hatred"
No details of how the victims were killed have been released. " He criticized his parents, of whom he was the only child, for having been" bad parents "and when it came to his ex-parents-in-law, whom he had not met for about 10 years, he described them as people. manipulative and demonic ”, according to Mr. Lenormand. " Ultimately ", concludes the prosecutor, the suspect " had matured during all these years a ferocious hatred towards the victims. Hatred that led him to murder them on August 22 and 23, 2020 ”.
The man, who incurs the penalty of life imprisonment, presented himself Sunday to the gendarmerie of Pollestres (Pyrénées-Orientales), claiming to have intentionally killed his parents living in Perpignan and his ex-parents-in-law domiciled in the locality near Boulou. The police officers mobilized in fact discovered these deceased people in their respective homes.
The man had, after having delivered himself, been " immediately placed in police custody and transported to the hospital of Perpignan for treatment following a suspicion of massive taking of drugs ", specified the prosecutor. The Perpignan branch of the Montpellier SRPJ was responsible for the follow-up to the investigation.
