A 31-year-old man was presented this Friday to an investigating judge in Limoges, after having confessed in police custody to having killed and dismembered the body of his grandmother, Thursday in a village of Haute-Vienne, for a still unfathomable motive, between “premeditation” and “dementia”.
The man, unknown to the justice system, with no psychological or psychiatric history, has a “complex personality”, but after medical examination, his condition was “not incompatible with police custody”, said at a conference of urges the prosecutor of Limoges, Xavier Pasturel.
A judicial investigation into the murder was opened, and the prosecution requested his detention on remand. Neither the magistrate nor Colonel Xavier Gonda, commander of the Limoges research section, gave any details on the modus operandi of the crime, or the weapon used. They mentioned a “complex” dossier.
“The autopsy was quite long. We need to have the look of the IRCGN (Criminal Research Institute of the Gendarmerie,” said the susbtitut. “Given the clues collected, (…) there may be have multiple “crime scenes.”
Inconsistent and incriminating remarks
The firefighters were called around 5.30 p.m. Wednesday for a fire in a house in an isolated hamlet in the village of Saint-Léonard de Noblat, 20 km from Limoges. They had quickly mastered the fire in a room and the barn, but had searched from top to bottom to find the occupant, an 80-year-old widow. They found his dismembered body in the freezer.
At the scene, her grandson had made incoherent and incriminating remarks, and had been placed in police custody. In the evening of Thursday, he recognized the intentional homicide and the dismemberment of the body. He seems the only one involved, said the deputy prosecutor for Limoges, Xavier Pasturel.
The motive is “difficult to establish at present” he underlined. “Is it voluntary, premeditated, conscious, thoughtful, a stroke of madness, an act guided by dementia and ‘voices’? (…) Several hypotheses are considered but will be the subject of investigations. no door “.
The suspect, who studied sociology, is without profession and lives in Haute-Vienne. He had come to spend Christmas Eve with his grandmother, along with other members of his family. New Year’s Day, worried not to see the victim for the planned lunch, his niece and his sister had come to the news: the grandson had explained to them that the grandmother had gone in search of his dog. Family and neighbors were taken care of by psychologists.
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