A detainee at the Brest remand center was indicted for murder after the death of one of his fellow prisoners on the night from Sunday to Monday, we learned on Wednesday from the prosecution.
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“
Throughout the custody, the self-appointed suspect asserted his right to silence.
He did not provide any explanation of the facts,
”the prosecution said in a statement.
A third detainee, who shared the same cell, was eventually released after being taken into police custody.
According to the account of the latter, it appears, "
at this stage of the investigations, that a dispute would have arisen between the victim and the defendant for a reason not yet clarified
", indicates the same source.
A dispute with unclear causes
The autopsy of the victim “
revealed numerous traces of blows to the head, neck and the whole body. She concluded that the death would be due either to a rupture of the larynx, compatible with a strangulation, or to the blows received to the head as evidenced by numerous hematomas noted
", specifies the prosecution, according to which"
only the expertise of anatomopathology will allow to determine the precise cause of death
”. Aged in her thirties, the victim was serving a three-month prison sentence for repeated theft.
The indicted, 25 years old, was imprisoned "
in execution of the sentences of nine months of imprisonment pronounced for contempt, death threats and violence against persons holding public authority
" last November and "
a sentence of 10 months of imprisonment for theft with violence, degradation, driving without a license
”, pronounced in July 2020.
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According to local secretary Ufap-Unsa, the indicted person was "
quite violent, self-harm regularly
" and "
had been seen by a doctor in the evening
" on Sunday. The union representative recalled that the standard provides for “
two inmates per cell
” and not three as in the present case.