An inmate from La Talaudière prison, near Saint-Etienne (Loire) was placed in police custody after the discovery of the body of her fellow detainee in the night from Monday to Tuesday, we learned from sources. concordant.
The initial investigation, opened on the investigation of the causes of the death of a 58-year-old detainee, "was reclassified as an investigation for murder", confirmed this Tuesday morning the public prosecutor of Saint-Etienne, David Charmatz.
"Psychologically fragile"
Aged 30, the victim's fellow detainee, presented as "psychologically fragile" by a union representative from the Loire penitentiary center, was on Tuesday in police custody at the central police station in Saint-Etienne.
She is suspected of having strangled the death of the deceased, in her fifties, who had suspicious traces on the neck when she was discovered inanimate by a team of night guards at around 11 p.m.
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