The Annecy court, November 27, 2015. - JEAN-PIERRE CLATOT / AFP

Suspected of having killed a psychologist in his office, Wednesday in Annecy (Haute-Savoie), a 75-year-old man was indicted for murder and placed in pre-trial detention this Friday evening, according to information from our colleagues in France Blue Pays de Savoie.

While in custody, the suspect recognized the shot, but denied wanting to kill her. "Aged 75, the alleged perpetrator has never been convicted (...) He admits having come to the scene of the facts and recognizes the shot", explained the public prosecutor Véronique Denizot in a press release Press.

A report for sexual assault on a minor

The septuagenarian would have acted because of "worrying information (report) considered by the victim for ten days and written the day before the facts". The psychologist, who was not following him, planned to report him for acts of sexual assault on a minor of 15 years in the family.

According to our colleagues, the man explained that he had come "to scare the victim, and to recover any paper or computer document linked to a report implicating him for acts of sexual abuse, and to have fired only under the effect of panic ”. Aged in her thirties and mother of an 18-month-old child, the psychologist, hit in the head, died on Wednesday.

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