A man in his twenties was taken into police custody and hospitalized after the murder of a sixty-year-old night watchman in a home in Auray (Morbihan), we learned on Saturday from the Lorient prosecutor's office .
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During the night from Thursday to Friday, “
the gendarmes of Auray were called around midnight, following an attack reported at the home of young workers. On the spot, they discovered an inanimate and seriously injured person on the ground,
”Stéphane Kellenberger, public prosecutor of Lorient told AFP on Saturday. The victim was the night watchman of the structure, aged about sixty, "
who presented the scars of significant violence, with numerous wounds, in particular located at the level of the head
".
“
Witnesses designated the defendant, resident of the home, aged about twenty.
Initially placed in police custody, he was to be sedated, then quickly hospitalized under duress, in a specialized establishment
, ”added the prosecutor.
An investigation was opened in flagrante delicto, the criminal count of murder.
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