Under the influence of alcohol and anger, José Carlos committed the irreparable.
This 29-year-old man was referred this Thursday to the Versailles courthouse, where he should be indicted for murder in the evening.
He is suspected of having, during the night from Sunday to Monday in Noisy-le-Roi, stabbed to death an 85-year-old man, against the backdrop of a neighborhood quarrel.
This terrible story begins in an apartment in this small town north of Versailles, when José argues violently with his partner.
He is drunk and the noise becomes difficult for the neighbor downstairs.
The latter, retired, begins by banging on the ceiling to ask for calm.
The situation does not get better and this old man, widower and living alone, decides to go upstairs to demand an end to the noise.
The dialogue immediately escalates and an altercation breaks out between the two men.
José, still very angry, rejects the octogenarian, who retreats and comes back to his home.
The body discovered by the cleaning lady
Everything could have ended like this.
But the young man does not intend to stop there.
Driven by the desire to do battle, he grabs a kitchen knife and decides to follow his neighbor to his apartment.
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José surprises the victim in the entrance and lards him with seven stab wounds in the thoracic region and in the throat.
He leaves the lifeless body there and closes the door, before returning home.
In the meantime, his partner leaves the scene.
Tuesday morning, around 10 am, it is the cleaning lady who discovers the corpse of the octogenarian, which lies in a pool of blood, behind the front door.
The employee immediately warns the gendarmerie.
The criminal investigation technicians, in their white overalls, sift through the apartment in the hope of finding traces and clues.
The body is taken to the forensic institute in Garches (Hauts-de-Seine).
The medical examiner performs the autopsy which reveals that the death was caused by multiple stab wounds in the region of the heart.
The suspect admitted his involvement
Responsible for the investigation, the gendarmes of the research section (SR) of Versailles question the neighborhood, which gives little information on the ins and outs of the tragedy.
And it is ultimately the main suspect who betrays himself by contacting a friend via WhatsApp messaging.
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"He confided in explaining that he
had done something stupid
", adds another source, and this person warned the gendarmes.
Tuesday at 4 p.m., the soldiers find José, thanks to the location of his phone and call him on the site where he was working in Noisy-le-Roi.
The suspect is taken to the premises of the SR, where he is taken into police custody.
This Brazilian arrived in France since March.
He works in the building industry and he has no criminal record in France.
“At first, he denied any implications in this case, adds a source familiar with the matter.
Then he made a full confession.
During his auditions, the man confirms that he pursued his neighbor before stabbing him.
He explains that he acted under the influence of alcohol and that he was the plaything of an impulse of "uncontrollable violence".
