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A sordid affair.
A 46-year-old woman was indicted and placed in pre-trial detention, accused of having killed a man whose body was found in a cardboard box, we learned Tuesday from the Bobigny prosecutor's office.
Aged 36, the latter went to the apartment of the respondent in Pré-Saint-Gervais, in Seine-Saint-Denis to extort money from him, said a police source, confirming information of the
Parisian
.
"He would have forced the door and the woman would have defended herself with a tear gas canister", continues this source.
"If the death of the victim is the consequence of a respiratory failure, according to the autopsy, the circumstances and the exact date of his death are not yet known", indicates the public prosecutor of Bobigny.
According to a source close to the investigation, the woman had placed the corpse, small in size, in a large television packaging box, taking advantage of her move.
Then the movers had left the box at his mother's home in Mée-sur-Seine (Seine-et-Marne).
Hair was sticking out of the box
It is the brother of the mis en cause who discovered the body of the man by wanting to “move the cardboard of the court to avoid damaging the television with the rain.
He saw hair sticking out of the box, ”continues this source.
The woman, who admitted the facts, was brought before the examining magistrate on Saturday, and indicted for murder.
The Bobigny prosecutor's office clarified that she had filed a complaint in 2020 against the victim for abuse of weakness and aggravated theft.
The investigation which was entrusted to the judicial police of Seine-Saint-Denis continued on Tuesday to determine possible accomplices.
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