The lifeless body of a 48-year-old woman was discovered Monday, June 20, hidden under a thick layer of branches, in Malesherbes, a small town in Loiret located not far from Orléans, we learned this Thursday from the prosecution.
An investigation was immediately opened for murder and a man quickly arrested: he is an employee of the victim.
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At the start of this case, a call made in the night from Monday to Tuesday to the gendarmerie brigade of Malesherbes.
A person, whose identity they do not know, denounces to the soldiers facts likely to constitute a murder.
On the indications of this witness, the gendarmes bring to light the body of the forties, near the path called "La coulée verte".
It shows signs of injury.
The duty magistrate of the prosecution immediately moves to the scene around 4 a.m. and opens an investigation for murder.
The investigations are then entrusted to the research section of Orléans in conjunction with the research brigade of Pithiviers.
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The next morning, around 8 a.m., an individual suspected of having committed this homicide was arrested and placed in police custody.
Known by the police and gendarmerie under different identities, he would be 22 years old.
Furthermore, he is an employee of the victim.
“The reasons for this murder are, for the time being, not determined”
, specifies in a press release the prosecutor of Orleans, Emmanuelle Bochenek-Puren.
The autopsy of the victim's body carried out on Wednesday revealed traces of strangulation, supporting the thesis of death by strangulation.
Cautious, the magistrate explains that
“additional expertise must be carried out to establish with certainty the causes of death”
.
The opening of a judicial investigation is expected during the day.
