Samire L., indicted for "aggravated murder" and placed in pre-trial detention since Friday, April 9, remains in prison.
Justice has just rejected his request for release.
The 39-year-old man is the companion of Aurélie Vaquier, 38, whose body was discovered under a concrete slab at the couple's home, in Bédarieux (Hérault), Wednesday, April 7.
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By a judgment today, Thursday April 22, 2021, the investigating chamber of the Montpellier Court of Appeal rejected the request for the release of Aurélie Vaquier's companion, indicted for aggravated murder and who repeated that he was not responsible for the death of the young woman
, indicates in a press release Raphaël Balland, public prosecutor of Béziers.
He is therefore kept in pre-trial detention while the investigations by the gendarmes continue under the direction of the examining magistrate
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The genetic expertise ordered by the investigating judge made it possible to confirm with certainty that the body found at his home by the gendarmes on April 7, 2021 was indeed that of Aurélie Vaquier
", also explains Raphaël Balland in this press release. Since the discovery of the body of the thirty-something, Samire L. fiercely denies the facts. In police custody, he had indicated
"that Aurélie Vaquier was killed by another person who would then have concealed her body".