Three men were indicted for voluntary homicide and modification of crime scene after the discovery of a body in Vexin-sur-Epte (Eure), announced Monday evening the prosecutor of the Republic in Evreux, Rémi Coutin.
These indictments follow the discovery in a field, a few days earlier, of the body of a thirty-year-old, domiciled in the Oise and whose disappearance had been reported on May 6, said the magistrate at a press conference.
'Several blows to the skull'
The autopsy revealed "the presence of several metal fragments in the face of the victim", resulting from gunfire as well as "cranioencephalic trauma". According to the first elements of the investigation, the victim would have been the subject, in a dispute whose nature has not been specified, of shots in the face, probably a rifle, at the home of one of the accused.
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Considered dead, the victim was transported by car to the commune where his body was found. Noting that she was still breathing, one of the defendants "would then have hit her several times in the skull with a hammer before finishing her off," said the prosecutor.
The investigation was also opened by the prosecutor's office against X, noted the magistrate, because it is not excluded that other people not yet identified could have participated in the facts. The three men face 30 years in prison.