This Tuesday, a 40-year-old man was indicted and detained, accused of killing his older brother and sister-in-law last Sunday in a slum in the archipelago.
The alleged perpetrator who himself called the police on Sunday morning shortly after 9 a.m. to warn the police of the death of his brother and sister-in-law, the public prosecutor said on Tuesday. from Noumea.
On the spot, in a shanty town on the Nouville peninsula, at the entrance to Nouméa, capital of the archipelago, the investigators discovered the lifeless body of a man who had been hit twice in the head by a firearm. fire.
His companion was lying a few meters further, mortally wounded in the back, also by firearm.
Long-standing conflict
After 48 hours in police custody, the alleged perpetrator was indicted for "
intentional homicide followed by another crime
".
This man, the last of a family of 13 children, explained to the investigators that he had a long-standing conflict with his older brother, over a plot of land.
In 2017, he had already been sentenced to imprisonment following violence committed against this same brother.
According to him, an argument broke out on Sunday, during which he was hit on the head with a saucepan by his eldest.
He would then have returned to his home, in the neighboring cabin, to look for a 12-gauge rifle, a weapon with which he shot his brother less than 2 meters away, according to a witness, before targeting his sister-in-law who was trying to take the fled and who was fatally shot in the back.
The autopsies of the two victims should take place in the coming days.
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