A 47-year-old man was indicted and imprisoned Friday evening February 19 after the discovery of a forty-something fatally injured in Haute-Loire, while a second man was taken into custody, according to judicial sources.
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The forty-something indicted, as part of a judicial investigation for voluntary homicide opened by the Clermont-Ferrand prosecutor's office, himself warned the police of the presence of one of his acquaintances, who died according to him. of unease, at his home in Coubon in the agglomeration of Puy-en-Velay.
The autopsy of this 45-year-old man established that he had died of blows carried with a blunt object that caused internal bleeding, according to the Puy-en-Velay prosecutor's office.
A second man arrested in Clermont
The man at whose home the body was discovered, whose criminal record contains numerous mentions for petty crimes, denied to police investigators being the author of the fatal blows.
Friday evening, a second man, who could be the main perpetrator of the murder, was arrested in Clermont-Ferrand and placed in police custody, the prosecutor's office in this city told AFP on Saturday.
Contacted this Sunday by
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to know the consequences of this custody, the prosecutor of Clermont-Ferrand was not reachable.