A 21-year-old young man was indicted and imprisoned Friday for "kidnapping and forcible confinement followed by death" after the discovery of the body of a man Thursday in Châteauneuf-sur-Isère (Drôme), the Valence prosecutor's office said.

"The autopsy carried out on November 12 in the morning by the forensic institute of Grenoble makes it possible to determine that the victim was the subject of numerous violence caused by a blunt object and a bladed weapon," he said. in a press release.

Unemployed since April and a former voluntary assistant gendarme, the suspect, "who as it stands disputes the facts", was arrested Wednesday and then placed in police custody like two people from his close entourage thereafter.

The latter have since been exonerated and left free.

The locations of the arrests were not disclosed.

A "villainous" mobile

Chartered accountant in Porte-lès-Valence (Drôme), the victim, whose age was not specified, nor his relations with the suspect, had not given any news to his family since November 3.

His disappearance was reported four days later to the gendarmes.

The latter found his car on Wednesday and discovered traces of blood in the trunk of the vehicle but also at the victim's home. The investigations also revealed that the car was used by the suspect, arrested during the day with his relatives. The victim's body was discovered the next morning by hunters on the edge of a wood in the town of Châteauneuf-sur-Isère.

In addition to using the chartered accountant's car "for several days", the respondent had at the same time used the latter's credit card to carry out "several withdrawals of money", that is to say elements "allow (a) nt to think that the motive of the facts is villainous".

"The investigations will continue on rogatory commission, under the direction of the examining magistrate at the judicial court of Valence", concluded the prosecution.

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