A 31-year-old man was presented Friday to an investigating judge in Limoges, after having confessed in police custody to have killed and dismembered the body of his grandmother, Wednesday in a village of Haute-Vienne, for a mobile again unfathomable, 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.
The body found in the freezer
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 ", indicated the substitute." Considering the clues collected, (…) there may be several places "of the crime.
The firefighters were called around 5.30 p.m. Wednesday for a fire in a house in a remote hamlet in the village of Saint-Léonard de Noblat, 20 km from Limoges.
They quickly extinguished the incident and then searched from top to bottom to find the occupant, an 80-year-old widow. Her dismembered body lay in the freezer.
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 Years, his niece and his sister, worried not to see the victim for the scheduled lunch, 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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