The police of the departmental security of Marseille will have to look into this sordid story with a particularly nebulous mobile. On the night of Saturday to Sunday, a 36-year-old man living in Salon-de-Provence, in the Bouches-du-Rhône, was arrested at his home, reports La Provence.
He is suspected of having killed and dismembered his mother and even, according to the first findings of the investigators, could have wanted to ingest pieces of it. The 30-year-old, who suffers from psychiatric problems, admitted the facts and was placed in police custody.
Earlier, the firefighters had been called by relatives of the man's mother, worried that they had not heard from her for several days. Around 1:30 am Sunday, the latter called the police because the 57-year-old resident's son refused to open them. He gives in after a negotiation phase and the police then enter the apartment, which turns out to be the scene of a macabre crime scene.
Towards compulsory hospitalization?
The body of the fifties, cut out, was placed in plastic bags stored in several areas of the accommodation, including the fridge, oven and freezer. This suggests that the man could have wanted to eat their content, stresses La Provence, based on statements from the Aix-en-Provence prosecution, which opened an investigation for "assassination". Analyzes have been carried out to determine the contents of the suspect's stomach and an autopsy is underway on his mother's body to determine the causes of his death.
The man must also be the subject of a psychiatric assessment in order to determine if he can be placed in detention at the end of his police custody or if he must benefit from an automatic hospitalization in psychiatry .