An 18-year-old young woman was taken into police custody on Monday, suspected of being linked to "intentional homicide" after the discovery in her accommodation in Haute-Saône of a body of a young man who disappeared at the end of November, a indicated the prosecutor of Vesoul.
This is Théo Decouchant, 23, for whom the national police had launched a search notice, this disappearance having been considered worrying, as reported by our colleagues from France Bleu.
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The #policiers of # Besançon are calling for # witnesses in the context of the worrying #disappearance of Théo DECOUCHANT, which occurred on November 30, 2021.
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An autopsy of the body, this Tuesday morning, should make it possible to determine the causes of death, specified the prosecutor of Vesoul, Arnaud Grécourt.
"For the moment, nothing allows to date the death", according to him.
"Suspicious bank transactions"
This young man, domiciled in Besançon, had not given any sign of life since the night of November 29 to 30, after spending the evening with this young girl he had known for a short time, in Oiselay-et-Grachaux , a small town in Haute-Saône located between Vesoul and Besançon, said the magistrate.
According to France 3 Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, “the young man's cell phone went out at 6.15 am” on November 30.
The day before, “he had written a last message to one of his friends around 11 pm”.
A search notice was launched by the national police on December 3.
Questioned at the start of the investigation, the young woman said she had not heard from her guest since leaving home.
But on Monday, investigators from the Besançon judicial police, in charge of the investigation, conducted a search of the young girl's home where they discovered the hidden body.
Among the worrying elements, the police noted "suspicious banking transactions" carried out with the card of the young man disappeared and of which he was not the author, specified Mr. Grécourt, confirming information from Macommune.
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