A 24-year-old young man was indicted on Sunday for assassination by the Angoulême prosecutor's office.
He is suspected of having killed his 76-year-old grandmother, whose charred body was discovered last Friday in her henhouse, in the village of Pins, in Charente.
The victim's grandson was imprisoned.
The first elements noted by the gendarmes of the Poitiers research section and the forensic doctor quickly confirmed "the criminal track", the prosecution said in a press release.
During the first hearings, his 24-year-old grandson, already known to the justice services, was heard by investigators and finally placed in police custody on Friday evening.
"At this stage, no additional information can be communicated concerning the reasons for this crime, nor on the circumstances of the death of the victim," said the prosecution.
A dispute about the inheritance?
According to information from the daily
Charente Libre
obtained from a source close to the case, investigators are studying the trail of a financial dispute between the victim and his grandson.
A dispute over the inheritance opposed the young man and his grandmother, who lived alone in a place of half a dozen houses and had been widowed for ten years.
The young man had visited him a month ago.
An autopsy must be performed on Monday at the Poitiers Medico-Legal Institute to determine the exact circumstances of the death of the septuagenarian.
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