A man in his sixties was indicted on the night of Monday to Tuesday for the murder of his 88-year-old mother, the Bastia prosecutor told AFP.
The body of this woman was discovered on Sunday afternoon at her home in Prunelli-di-Fiumorbo (Haute-Corse) and an investigation
“for intentional homicide”
was immediately opened.
It led to the placement
“in police custody”
of his son who
“denies the facts”
, specified Jean-Philippe Navarre, public prosecutor of Bastia.
“The victim's son was referred to the public prosecutor's office on Monday as part of the opening of a judicial investigation into the charge of murder in his ascendant
,” said the prosecutor.
He was then indicted for the same charge and placed in pre-trial detention overnight, he said.
The autopsy, scheduled for Tuesday, should make it possible to precisely establish the causes of death.
According to a source close to the investigation, the victim was violently attacked and her son denies this matricide despite the discovery of a
“bloody hammer”
in his vehicle.
In mid-February, a man had already been indicted for
“murder on the ascendant”
after admitting to having fatally injured his 86-year-old mother with a knife in Antisanti (Haute-Corse), a village located 40 km from Prunelli-di -Fiumorbo.