A 52-year-old man suspected of having killed a burglar who came out of a neighboring house in Bourges, will be presented to an investigating judge on Saturday at the end of his police custody, we learned on Friday August 12 at the prosecutor's office.
On Wednesday evening, the body of a man was found lying in the courtyard of a house in the marshes district of Bourges.
The victim, who lived in another district of the city, received "
a gunshot
" in the chest, said the Bourges prosecutor's office.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the victim was "
probably killed as she left the house she had just robbed
" in the absence of the occupants.
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A neighbor of the house, who was not known to the courts, was arrested on Thursday, according to the prosecution, which extended his custody on Friday.
A "
murder investigation has been opened
" and entrusted to the territorial management of the judicial police of Orleans.
