What happened on the night of Friday 22 to Saturday 23 October in Choisy-le-Roi (Val-de-Marne)? A 62-year-old man, residing in the peaceful dead end rue Etienne-Dolet, was found dead in his garden, a bleeding wound in the skull, according to information from the
Parisian
, confirmed in
Figaro
by the Créteil prosecutor's office. A couple of future neighbors, who had been doing work in the adjacent house for several days, were taken into police custody in this case. They were then referred for the opening of a judicial investigation. A murder investigation was opened and entrusted to the judicial police of Val-de-Marne.
The man of the couple had been taken to the police station long before the discovery of the body, in the dead of night.
Around 3:30 am, the neighborhood had indeed called the police because he was screaming and banging "
on something metallic
", visibly drunk, reports a witness to the daily Ile-de-France.
Taken to a sobering-up cell, he was then placed in police custody, where he was later joined by his companion, discovered by the police in the victim's garden on Saturday morning.
The latter explained that she was looking for her companion there, according to France Bleu.
The hypothesis of a fight
According to the autopsy carried out on Sunday, the victim presented, in addition to the wound on the back of the skull, a shell, a wound on the knee and traces of asphyxiation, explains
Le Parisien
.
When the police arrived, the living room was upside down, littered with broken glass.
Has a fight broken out?
Also with the daily newspaper in Ile-de-France, a neighbor says he saw the woman walking through the victim's house in the light of the torch on her phone.
She would also have made several trips there during the night.
The residents of the district also indicated that the victim had been found "in
front of his garage, dressed and shoes
" and that he had therefore "
not been surprised in his sleep
".
