A 78-year-old woman was found dead in her house in Estagel, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, and investigators suspect her grandnephew of having killed her with a bladed weapon, according to the Perpignan prosecutor's office .
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During a press conference on Tuesday, November 16, Perpignan prosecutor Jean-David Cavaillé announced that the 25-year-old grand-nephew had been arrested on Sunday more than 200 km away, in Saint-Gaudens (Haute-Garonne) , with his partner, 33 years old.
Both were indicted and placed under warrant of committal on Tuesday evening.
Him for murder, she for complicity in murder.
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The bloody body of the victim was discovered on November 11 by his son, worried that he would not hear from his mother.
The autopsy revealed that she had died three days earlier, and showed stab wounds, possibly from stabbing, and trauma.
The prosecutor did not give any information on the motive of the murder, stressing that the gendarmes of the research section (SR) of Montpellier were in charge of the investigation and that a judicial investigation had just been opened.
The hearings, in particular of the relatives of the victim, made it possible to orient the investigation towards the couple.
