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C. Girardon / 20 Minutes

A 16-year-old teenager confessed to having stabbed his mother-in-law, found dead at her home in Millau (Aveyron), announced the Rodez prosecution, which on Thursday relinquished the case in favor of the Montpellier prosecutor's office (Hérault. The bloody body of the 39-year-old woman was discovered Tuesday by the police, alerted by a neighbor who said he heard screams and a thud, said the public prosecutor, Olivier Naboulet.

Her husband was outside the apartment, closed from inside.

The victim's son-in-law was inside, "curled up on a bed", according to the press release.

A sharp kitchen knife was found on a piece of furniture in the room where he was.

The two men were taken into custody on Tuesday.

The teenager's mother could not be contacted yet

The young man “admitted to being the author of the stab wounds, without being precise or saying about it.

In his first explanations, he reported a situation of bullying and regular remonstrance, ”says the prosecutor.

The mother of the teenager, apparently living abroad, has not yet been contacted, according to the prosecution.

The victim and his two relatives arrested are of foreign nationality, European nationals.

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  • Justice

  • Languedoc-Roussillon

  • Murder

  • Toulouse

  • Montpellier

  • Millau