Three men were indicted for murder and imprisoned on Friday, a month after the discovery of a lifeless body in a dam in the Dordogne, announced the parquet floor of Périgueux.
The body of the victim, aged around 30, was found on February 24 by EDF agents in the Tuilières dam in Saint-Capraise-de-Lalinde (Dordogne), about fifteen kilometers east. east of Bergerac.
Arrested on Wednesday morning, the three suspects were indicted for "
murder
" and "
kidnapping, detention or sequestration not followed by voluntary release before the 7th day
".
They were remanded in custody.
sentimental dispute
"
The facts are part of a personal dispute between the victim and the perpetrators, who knew each other,
" said the public prosecutor Solène Belaouar in a press release.
According to the daily Sud Ouest, it could be a settling of accounts linked to a “
sentimental dispute
”.
The first findings at the discovery of the body had made it possible to determine the intervention of a third party and to exclude accidental fall, drowning or natural death.
The three suspects are residents of the neighboring department of Lot-et-Garonne.
Two of them have no criminal record, while the third is known "
for common law offenses
," said the prosecutor.
