A 48-year-old woman and her 21-year-old son were indicted and imprisoned in Lyon on Friday after the murder on Sunday and Monday of two brothers in the metropolitan area of Valence, we learned this Saturday, February 6 from the prosecution from Lyon.
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Arrested by the judicial police of Valence - she in the Drôme and he in the Paris region -, the mother and her son were presented to the prosecution of the JIRS in Lyon.
The young man was indicted for "organized murder and criminal association with a view to committing a crime", while his mother is being prosecuted for "complicity", said the prosecution, confirming information from
Dauphiné Libéré
and
France Bleu Drôme Ardèche
.
Both were remanded in custody.
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Sunday morning, a 30-year-old man was found dead, his body riddled with several firearm impacts, also in Bourg-lès-Valence.
The next day, his 37-year-old older brother was shot dead in Valencia while driving his car.
"
The investigations are continuing on letter rogatory to determine the exact circumstances of the commission of the facts which appear to be part of the context of settling of scores between families
", added the prosecution.
An "ideal culprit"
According to
France Bleu
, investigators seem to establish a link with the murder of the son and brother of the two suspects, killed by guns in June in Bourg-lès-Valence (Drôme).
The investigation could therefore quickly focus on the track of family settling.
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Me Antoine Barret, lawyer for the young indicted, told AFP that his client "
was not on the run but did not feel safe
" in the Valence area.
The council also considered that the elements implicating the young man "
held more of the suspicion but were not convincing
".
"
My client disputes the facts,
" for her part told AFP Me Emmanuel Decombard, counsel to the mother of the family, who appears, according to him, "
ideal culprit
" in this case.
The link with the murder of his son is "
only a hypothesis of investigators
" whose investigations are "
at the very beginning
", he argued.
