Police illustration. - E. Frisullo / 20 Minutes

The fifty-year-old who gave himself Sunday to the gendarmes, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, accusing himself of having killed his parents and ex-parents-in-law claimed to have acted with premeditation, moved by a "fierce hatred", indicated this Tuesday the Perpignan prosecutor's office Placed in police custody, the man was transported to hospital for treatment following a suspicion of massive drug intake.

The suspect admitted "having voluntarily given the death to the four elderly people, with premeditation", Saturday and Sunday, specified Luc-André Lenormand, the
deputy public prosecutor of Perpignan, without specifying how the four victims were killed. “He criticized his parents, of whom he was the only child, for having been 'bad parents' and when it came to his ex-in-laws, whom he had not met for about 10 years, he described them as manipulative and demonic people ”, continues the magistrate.

Prolonged custody

The suspect “had matured during all these years a ferocious hatred towards the victims. Hatred which led him to assassinate them, ”indicates the deputy prosecutor.

The man, who incurs the penalty of life imprisonment, presented himself Sunday to the gendarmerie of Pollestres (Pyrénées-Orientales), claiming to have intentionally killed his parents living in Perpignan and his ex-parents-in-law domiciled in the locality near Boulou.

At the end of his prolonged custody, he will be presented following the requisitions of the Public Prosecutor's Office before an investigating judge for the purposes of his indictment of the charge of the crime of assassination. The Perpignan branch of the Montpellier SRPJ was responsible for the follow-up to the investigation.

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  • Murder
  • Languedoc-Roussillon
  • Perpignan
  • Investigation
  • Justice