A 29-year-old man was indicted and imprisoned on Thursday June 2 for the murder of one of his fellow prisoners at La Talaudière prison, in the Loire, we learned from the Saint-Etienne prosecutor's office.
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The suspect, from Montbrison (Loire), denies being the author of the blows which caused the death of one of the three other men who were in his cell last weekend, the same source specifies. .
Indictment for “intentional homicide”
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He was indicted for intentional homicide and placed under a warrant in another prison in the region
”, indicates the public prosecutor in Saint-Etienne, David Charmatz.
This man, who has 19 convictions on his criminal record, had been serving an 18-month prison sentence since March for domestic violence.
The victim is a 59-year-old man from Croatia who shared a cell in the La Talaudière prison center with three other men, where he died on Saturday despite cardiac massage given by a fellow prisoner, then by prison guards, before arrival. from Samu.
The autopsy carried out on Monday revealed a series of traumas and fractures on the victim's body.