It all started from an argument with his father on the evening of April 9. A trivial argument about what they should eat for the evening meal and which should have left it at that. Mad with anger, the son, aged 18, left the family home and, a few meters further, met his neighbors who were in their garden mowing the lawn. A retired couple from Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine) who took advantage of the arrival of sunny days in their second home in Combres (Eure-et-Loir). Without explanation, the young man then lashed out at them, fatally injuring them.
It was the next day, around 5 p.m., Wednesday April 10, that the bodies of the 75-year-old woman and her husband, about ten years older according to the prosecutor, were discovered by a neighbor who contacted the gendarmerie. . The Nogent-le-Rotrou company research brigade and the Orléans Research Section were jointly responsible for this criminal investigation.
Several wounds
According to the results of the autopsy carried out on April 12, at the Garches Medico-legal Institute, the victims died from wounds in the jugular and carotid arteries, causing massive blood loss and respiratory distress. The murder weapon? A knife, precisely the one intended for opening oysters, according to the statements of the main defendant who admitted to being the author of the attack.
Details of the autopsy also revealed several blows to the victims, particularly to the face, causing fractures. Evidence also indicates that the man, in his eighties, tried to defend himself, as evidenced by the marks found on his hands.
It was during the neighborhood investigation that the mother of the accused told investigators that her son had gone out yesterday around 6 p.m. That he came home just after she heard the cries of “stop, stop, stop!” »
without understanding what was happening
and that he had cleaned his pants and shoes. Traces of blood were then detected and sent for analysis to a laboratory, the report of which is scheduled for Saturday April 13 during the day.
The arrest of the young man, although turbulent due to his violent behavior, was carried out less than 24 hours after the discovery of the bodies. The young man, until then unknown to the judicial services, now finds himself facing charges of double intentional homicide, punishable by life imprisonment.
The opening of a judicial investigation will allow us to better understand the motivations behind this unthinkable act. A psychiatric assessment will be carried out to clarify the psychological motives which led the young man to take action.