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  • Last Sunday morning, a 30-year-old man was found dead, his body riddled with several firearm impacts, in Bourg-lès-Valence.

    The next day around 6 p.m., his older brother, aged 37, was shot dead in Valencia while driving his car.

  • A 48-year-old woman and her 21-year-old son were indicted and imprisoned in Lyon on Friday.

  • Investigators seem to establish a link with the murder of the son and brother of the two suspects, shot dead in June in Bourg-lès-Valence (Drôme).

It is the trail of a settling of scores that led to the arrest of the two suspects.

A 48-year-old woman and her 21-year-old son were indicted and imprisoned in Lyon on Friday after the murder on Sunday and Monday of two brothers in the metropolitan area of ​​Valence (Drôme), we learned from the prosecution on Saturday .

Arrested by the judicial police of Valence - she in the Drôme and he in the Paris region - the mother and her son were presented to the prosecution of the JIRS in Lyon.

The young man was indicted for "organized murder and criminal association with a view to committing a crime", while his mother is being prosecuted for "complicity", said the prosecution, confirming information from

Dauphiné Libéré

and France Bleu Drôme-Ardèche.

Both were remanded in custody.

The son and brother of suspects shot dead in June

Last Sunday morning, a 30-year-old man was found dead, his body riddled with several firearm impacts, in Bourg-lès-Valence.

The next day around 6 p.m., his older brother, aged 37, was shot dead in Valencia while driving his car.

"The investigations are continuing on letter rogatory to determine the exact circumstances of the commission of the facts which appear to be part of the context of settling of scores between families", added the prosecution.

According to the radio, investigators seem to establish a link with the murder of the son and brother of the two suspects, killed by firearms in June in Bourg-lès-Valence (Drôme).

Me Antoine Barret, lawyer for the young indicted, said his client "was not on the run but did not feel safe" in the Valence area.

He also considered that the elements implicating the young man "held more suspicion but were not convincing".

"My client disputes the facts," said Me Emmanuel Decombard, counsel for the mother of the family, who is, according to him, "ideal culprit" in this case.

The link with the murder of his son is "only a hypothesis of investigators" whose investigations are "at the very beginning", he argued.

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  • Reckoning

  • Police

  • Investigation

  • Justice

  • Murder