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Research in Creuse to find a motorist who probably died during a theft

2022-11-25T21:50:02.475Z


A 69-year-old man, probably deceased, is actively wanted in Creuse after two individuals confessed to killing him and stealing his...


A 69-year-old man, probably deceased, is actively wanted in Creuse after two individuals confessed to killing him and stealing his car, AFP learned from a source close to the investigation, confirming information from the regional press. .

The Limoges prosecutor's office opened an investigation on Friday, November 25 for "

robbery with violence resulting in death

", the same source said.

The facts date back to November 13 when two men were arrested in the neighboring department of Allier for a case of vehicle theft, with violence against a motorist.

In police custody, the two suspects confessed to having stolen, before these facts, another car and killed its driver before abandoning it on a road, possibly in the Creuse, according to their statements.

The two fugitives would then have continued on their way, before having an accident in the Allier where the car registered in the name of a resident of Saint-Barbant (Haute-Vienne) was found.

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Its owner, a Frenchman living in Switzerland, would have met his executioners in this same town where he had another residence.

The research section of the Limoges gendarmerie is in charge of the investigation.

The gendarmes undertook a lot of research, there is even a helicopter which flew over the town

,” said Christine Séguy, former mayor of Saint-Barbant, to an AFP correspondent.

In a message on social networks, the French federation of hunters in Creuse urged its members to "

be very attentive

" during hunting trips and "

not to touch anything

" in the event of discovery of the body "

in a ditch or near it, along a secondary road

" and "

to contact the gendarmerie immediately

".

Source: lefigaro

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