What happened ?
An investigation for theft with violence resulting in death was opened after the suspicious death of an 84-year-old woman at her home in Charmes (Vosges), we learned on Wednesday.
The victim's son had called the gendarmes last Friday after discovering his mother unconscious at her home in Charmes, "where she lived alone", said the public prosecutor, Frédéric Nahon, in a press release.
The investigators found “many traces of breaking and entering (…) on the front door of the house and in different rooms of the house” and that “several pieces of furniture had been searched”, added the magistrate.
Judicial information soon to be opened
An autopsy was carried out on Tuesday at the forensic institute of the CHRU in Nancy and the results are not yet known, but "the hypothesis of violence exerted on the victim is privileged", he also indicated.
The investigation was entrusted to the Nancy research section and the Remiremont research brigade.
A judicial investigation will be opened "before the end of the week", according to the prosecution.
