The scenario of the murder committed on September 22 at 81bis, rue de l'Ourcq (Paris, 19th century) begins to become clearer and a man has been identified in this affair.
According to our information, he could not be indicted due to a procedural flaw.
That afternoon, Jie Z., a 34-year-old Chinese man, was found bathed in his blood, due to serious wounds caused in particular by a drill bit.
The man died a few hours later.
A judicial investigation is opened for "murder preceded by another crime, torture and act of barbarism".
The tenant of the studio, a 39-year-old man, was quickly identified as a possible suspect.
A search warrant is issued against him.
Two days after the incident, the man presented himself on his own initiative at the Pantin police station (Seine-Saint-Denis).
This cell phone repairer is placed in police custody by investigators from the 2nd district of the Paris judicial police.
He confesses to the murder while in custody
On September 25, his custody was lifted with a view to his removal.
The authorities then have twenty hours to present him to an examining magistrate who must decide on his indictment.
But, according to our information, the magistrate cannot receive him within the time limits imposed by the legal procedure.
The suspect was then released on September 26, a judicial source tells us.
An arrest warrant was issued against this man who admitted during his custody to be the author of the fatal blows.
Indeed, according to the statements of this suspect during the hearing, it is the victim, Jie Z., who allegedly attacked him.
The deceased was said to have been convinced that his partner had a romantic relationship with the telephone repairer.
Equipped with a hammer, he would have gone to 81 bis to do battle.
Also according to our information, the respondent explains that he would have managed to disarm his attacker and to seize himself a door wedge and a drill bit, a little over two feet long. .
But the suspect assures him: he never intended to kill the victim.
According to the investigators' initial findings, Jie Z. showed signs of perforation on his ankles, stomach, a sore throat and bruises on his head.
He films the dying victim
If the respondent filmed the dying victim and sent the video to his wife, it is because he wanted her to alert the emergency services, he still told investigators.
But, he admits, he still intended to post the video on Chinese social networks, without knowing why.
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On the day of the murder, the companion of Jie Z., a 30-year-old woman, explained to investigators that she had gone to the suspect's studio the day before to have her phone repaired.
The next day, she returned because the repair was not satisfactory.
But, she still confided to the investigators, she did not know what her companion had come to do there the day of his death.
