Virgile Bourdon, indicted and imprisoned since January 25, 2019 for murder by spouse on the person of Laura Fay, who disappeared in August 2018, was found dead in his cell on June 28, 2021, announced the public prosecutor of Mont -de-Marsan (Landes).
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At 9.25 am this Monday, "
a prison supervisor discovered Virgile Bourdon inanimate in his cell, lying on his bed,
" said Olivier Janson, public prosecutor of Mont-de-Marsan, in a
press
release.
In spite of a cardiac massage by the supervisors then the emergency services, “
the death of Mr. Bourdon was noted at 10:15 am
” by the SAMU.
Seen "the same morning, in apparently normal state of form"
The 35-year-old detainee presented "
no identified pathology
" and had been seen "
the same morning shortly after 7 am, apparently in a state of normal form
".
A procedure in search of the causes of death was entrusted to the police station of Mont-de-Marsan.
At present, "
the first elements collected do not highlight any clue likely to direct the investigation towards a passage to the suicidal act
", indicates the prosecutor, who announced the holding of an autopsy in the week.
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Virgile Bourdon was to be tried next January before the Landes Assize Court, after confessing in police custody, in early 2019, the murder of his companion Laura Fay, who had disappeared in August 2018 while she was going to the festival Musicalarue, in the Landes. The thirty-something, who evoked an argument that had degenerated, then led the investigators to the body of his girlfriend, in Uchacq-et-Parentis.
Following a reconstruction carried out in his presence, Virgile Bourdon was then suspected of having hit the young woman, of having strangled her with a necklace, then of having put her body in a sleeping bag. He would have returned after dark to better hide the body, in the middle of the bushes of a forest path. Laura Fay's body was found in January 2019. Virgile Bourdon's lawyer, Anthony Sutter, reacted on Twitter, explaining that he was the last person outside to have seen the alleged murderer last week, relates France Blue.
