A man was indicted for murder in a state of obvious intoxication after pushing a forty-year-old in Rennes to Rennes, who then drowned, we learned from the prosecution on Sunday.
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The facts happened on Wednesday evening.
The body of the victim, a homeless person born in 1982 in Benin, was found Thursday noon a few meters from the presumed place of his fall, according to the prosecution.
“
A criminal judicial investigation has been opened with an investigating judge.
The person concerned was indicted on the count of murder by a person acting in a state of obvious intoxication
”, indicated by email the public prosecutor of Rennes, specifying that this circumstance made incur life criminal imprisonment.
The defendant, born in 1985, was remanded in custody.
According to the prosecutor, he is "
known to the judicial institution for a conviction for acts of violence
".
During the hearings, he declared to the investigators "to
have been attacked by the victim, to have jostled her and to have had no intention of homicide
".
According to a witness interviewed by AFP, the victim was preparing to eat around 9:40 p.m. when an altercation broke out with another man.
“
They were 50 cm from the edge.
The guy was threatening him saying he was going to fuck him up
,” said the 17-year-old high school student, who was taking out the trash.
Pushed into the river, the victim "
panicked quite quickly
", according to the witness, who immediately called the fire department.
"
He couldn't swim and was fully clothed with a backpack that he couldn't take off
," he said.
After a few minutes, the man disappeared to the bottom of the river.
