A 20-year-old man, suspected of having stabbed a 23-year-old man near Tours on Christmas Eve, was indicted and jailed for murder, the prosecution announced Thursday, December 30.
The alleged perpetrator "
was indicted on the count of voluntary homicide (Thursday) afternoon by the investigating judge in charge of the investigations and placed in
pre-
trial detention in accordance with our requisitions,
" said the prosecutor of Grégoire Dulin towers.
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According to the hearings of "
many witnesses
", the victim was, the evening of the facts, in his car with friends in a parking lot in La Riche, near Tours.
The young man was then "
taken to task
" by the suspect who "
insulted him and struck him in the face,
" said the magistrate in a statement.
The victim tried to retaliate with a golf club placed in the trunk of his car but his attacker dealt him "
several blows with a ceramic knife with a blade of 19 centimeters
", according to the same source.
Seven wounds, five of which are particularly deep
The suspect was arrested Tuesday by the judicial police of Tours in an industrial area of La Riche, the town where he is from. During his custody, he admitted the charges while denying the intention of homicide, specifying that they "
had intervened in a context of massive alcoholism
", according to the press release. French nationality and never convicted before, he was presented to the public prosecutor's office Thursday at the end of his police custody before being indicted by an investigating judge and then placed in pre-trial detention.
The victim was dropped off by car on the evening of December 24 by an acquaintance in the emergency room of the Alliance Saint-Cyr clinic, north of Tours.
She died shortly after her arrival, between 11:30 p.m. and midnight.
The autopsy established "
the presence on the body of the deceased of seven wounds on the left flank including five particularly deep, caused by a sharp object
", according to the
press
release.