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STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP

He would have killed himself by hanging himself in his individual cell, indicates this Thursday the parquet floor of Mont-de-Marsan (Landes).

A 49-year-old father sentenced in early February to 15 years in prison in Mont-de-Marsan for raping his daughter, whom he had made pregnant at the age of 12, was found dead in the night from Wednesday to Thursday.

It was prison supervisors from the Pémégnan penitentiary center who discovered the unconscious prisoner in his individual cell, specifies the prosecutor of the Republic of Mont-de-Marsan Olivier Janson, confirming information from the

South West

.

They tried to revive him, as well as the emergency services arrived quickly on the spot, in vain, before declaring his death.

The prosecutor excludes as it stands "the intervention of a third party"

An autopsy will be carried out, "as it is systematically the case" when a detainee dies in prison, to confirm the "suicide by hanging", by means of sheets, added the magistrate, excluding as it stands "the intervention of a third party ”.

The detainee "was the subject of close surveillance, which implies closer rounds, but does not prevent a passage to the act for someone who is determined", added the prosecutor.

The man, a craftsman on disability after a work accident several years ago, did not leave a letter to explain his gesture and "no suicidal element has been noted since his imprisonment".

He had appealed against his conviction

At the end of three days of trial, the Assize Court of the Landes had sentenced him on February 2 to 15 years of criminal imprisonment for the rapes of his daughter, now adult, who had become pregnant at the age 12 years old.

She must have had an abortion.

Then she denounced the facts to her mother, three years later.

The father had recognized them in the family circle, in front of his wife, his daughter and his two other children, then had denied them, from his arrest until the trial.

He had appealed.

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