The family murder trail is confirmed.
The man who died this Friday in Plainfaing (Vosges) was killed by his two stepsons, with the participation of his partner, all three of whom were indicted and placed in detention, the prosecutor announced on Monday. Republic of Epinal, Frédéric Nahon.
The two men, aged 27 and 30, were indicted for aggravated homicide, their mother, 54, for murder preceded, accompanied or followed by acts of torture and barbarity, as well as counts of abstention voluntarily preventing a crime and failing to assist a person in danger.
The police were alerted by a resident this Friday around 9:30 p.m., worried about hearing an altercation among his neighbors.
Ten minutes later they also received “a telephone call from an individual telling them that they had killed a man”, explained the Epinal prosecutor.
At the scene, they discovered the body of a 55-year-old man, added the magistrate, specifying that the crime scene was "extremely violent", with "several dozen wounds on the body, located in the back, legs and a completely disfigured face.”
A dispute linked to the placement of dogs at the SPA
The accused admitted the facts and confirmed during their custody that they had used “the objects present in the living room, namely a knife, a pruning knife and a baseball bat”, to kill the victim, according to Frédéric Nahon .
The reason for this surge of violence would be none other than the placement of her stepsons' dogs in the SPA by the victim, without their consent.
“They wanted to have an explanation with their stepfather on this subject, in the presence of their mother, and things degenerated, the stepsons saw
red
and attacked the victim,” according to the Epinal prosecutor. .
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In police custody, “his partner admitted to having first hit him a few times, without then stopping his sons from doing so,” added the magistrate.
None of the accused was under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
The mother and one of her sons were already known for serious violence.
The victim's body will be autopsied in the coming days and further investigations will be carried out, particularly into the course of the events and the personality of those indicted.