The police (illustration). – Sebastien SALOM-GOMIS / SIPA
A financial dispute would be at the heart of the drama. 50-year-old man died of injuries on Saturday after being beaten up in Gap High mountains at the beginning of the week by a man whom he had lodged. The suspect was indicted and imprisoned for these acts, the prosecutor’s office said on Sunday. Grenoble.
Victim found unconscious
Already known to the justice system, the 28-year-old man has been prosecuted for “attempted homicide” since Friday by the investigative judge of the criminal pole of Grenoble, where he was presented after a 48 hour police custody. Arrested Wednesday in Gap, he is suspected of having hit the victim the previous day, very violently, his victim, a fifty-year-old, who would have housed him “several days” before the facts. She had been found unconscious the next day by firefighters “With many bruises and lesions on the face and body” before being transported to the Gap Hospital Center and then to the Timone in Marseille with a “vital prognosis committed”, said the public prosecutor of Grenoble, Eric Vaillant .
“Minimalist confessions”
During his hearings, the suspect allegedly made “minimalist confessions” declaring that he had “a stampede with his victim” while the two men spent the evening together. The reason advanced, “the disappearance of a sum of money of 300 euros”. Leaving the victim alone after the fact, the suspect would have returned the next day with a friend to whom he had asked, according to his statements, to warn the firefighters before the “state of unconsciousness” of the fifties.
“On July 11, 2020, the investigating judge was informed of the victim’s death. Consequently, the Grenoble public prosecutor’s office will seize the investigating judge of additional requisitions for voluntary homicide and an autopsy will be ordered by the investigating magistrate, “added the magistrate. Investigations must now continue on a letter rogatory from an investigating judge. The young suspect is also suspected of attempted extortion of a vulnerable person in Gap, earning him arrest by the police on Monday before being released.
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