A man and a woman, confused by traces of DNA, were indicted on Thursday and imprisoned for the murder of a septuagenarian committed in 2012 in Metz, announced Thursday January 13 the public prosecutor of this city, Yves Badorc.
The man, born in 1992, and the woman, born in 1994, "
a minor at the time of the
events", were "
indicted for aggravated murder and theft
", the magistrate told AFP.
They were both remanded in custody, added Yves Badorc.
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They had been arrested on Tuesday on the rogatory commission of a Messin judge: the man "
in Lorraine
" and his alleged accomplice "
towards Toulouse
", according to the prosecutor who did not wish to specify the nature of the links between the two suspects. "
The man acknowledges having been at the scene
" of the crime, in February 2012, "
but disputes being the cause of the death of the victim
" and "
the young woman disputes her participation
", continued Yves Badorc. “
It is the DNA which made it possible to trace these two people
”, further specified the prosecutor, genetic material having in particular been found “
on the clothes of the victim
”.
On February 13, 2012, the lifeless body of Agnès Grégoire, a 71-year-old retiree, was found in the living room of her house in Metz. The victim had several chest wounds, obviously caused by bloody scissors found near the corpse, the Metz prosecutor's office said at the time. The septuagenarian also wore a tight scarf around her neck, according to the same source, which then specified that the old lady had not died of strangulation but had succumbed to massive bleeding. No theft or traces of break-in had been observed at first, said the same source. The body of the septuagenarian had been discovered by delivery men who entered the pavilion which "
was closed but not locked
“, had indicated the parquet floor of Messin.