A 58-year-old man was remanded in custody after the discovery on Tuesday, in an apartment in Orleans, of the body of a sixty-year-old with multiple stab wounds, AFP learned Friday (November 5) from a judicial source.
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Alerted by neighbors Tuesday around 11:30 pm, the police intervened in an apartment in Orléans, where they discovered "
the body of a 64-year-old man, with multiple stab wounds on the body and in particular on the neck
" , said the prosecutor of the Republic of Orleans, Emmanuelle Bochenek-Puren. "
The autopsy carried out confirms that the death was caused by a large number of traumatic injuries caused by a prickly-sharp object
" of which "
some are deep and located in the neck and thorax,
" said the prosecutor.
"
Three people, present on the scene
", including the companion of the victim, aged 59, and a couple in their fifties, owner of the apartment where the events took place, "
were arrested and taken into custody in seen the same evening
, ”the prosecutor said in a statement.
“
At the end of their interrogations and diligent checks, the two women placed in police custody were released,
” added Emmanuelle Bochenek-Puren.
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The 58-year-old man was brought before an examining magistrate as part of an open judicial investigation for “
murder
” and placed in pre-trial detention.
The prosecutor specifies that it is about a "
man suffering from a slight motor handicap, leading him to move in a wheelchair
".
According to the magistrate, the man presented "
a hand injury when the police arrived
."
