A 22-year-old man was indicted and placed in detention for the murder of a 31-year-old woman, missing in Lorient since last week and whom he admitted to having killed, the Lorient prosecutor's office announced on Friday.
The police received a call on February 17 from a man reporting the worrying disappearance of his daughter who had not given any sign of life for several days.
At the same time, a young man born in 2001
“presented himself spontaneously (...) claiming to be the 'boyfriend' of the missing person and saying he was worried about not having heard from her
,” the prosecutor explains in a press release. of the Republic of Lorient, Stéphane Kellenberger.
He then claimed to have learned from a resident of the missing woman's neighborhood that the young woman had
“got into a vehicle with three individuals on board”
.
At the same time, a neighbor of the young woman told the police that she had seen the young man in question on February 15, 2024, who said he was looking for the young woman, and that she had then heard a noise in the apartment.
“The search carried out by the police at the home of the missing person revealed disturbing elements”
, in particular
“the presence of traces of blood in various places”,
revealed by the use of a chemical substance, continues the prosecutor.
Traces of blood were also found in a vehicle used by the young man.
In a neighborhood trash can, investigators then found a duvet cover, a bloody knife and glasses similar to those of the victim.
Placed in police custody on February 21, the young man then changed his version, again evoking a group of three individuals, then tried to present himself as a
“witness”
to the facts, before finally admitting to having committed them himself, alone. .
The young man finally told investigators the same day where the victim's body was located, in an undergrowth located in the Lorient region.
“Anger burst” after a “chance encounter”
The autopsy carried out the next day confirmed the presence of injuries caused by stab wounds to the victim's neck and thorax, without revealing at this stage violence of a sexual nature.
“The accused, who had no evidence to link him to the victim, other than a chance encounter on the same day or the day before, declared that he was at the origin of the young woman's death, spoke of a sudden attack. anger”
, specifies the Lorient prosecutor.
Indicted for intentional homicide and placed in pre-trial detention, he faces a sentence of 30 years in prison.