Two men, 35 and 48, were indicted for murder and imprisoned on Sunday.
They are suspected of having killed an octogenarian found slaughtered at his home in Longjumeau, in Essonne, the Evry prosecutor's office said on Tuesday.
These two men surrendered to the police on Friday, then were indicted on Sunday for murder and placed in pre-trial detention, said the prosecution, confirming information from the
Parisian
.
The investigation was entrusted to the criminal brigade of the judicial police of Versailles, on which the department of Essonne depends.
According to a source familiar with the matter, the two men are "drug addicts".
"One of them was given money by the victim, we can assume that it is in this context of money relations that the murder took place," said this source.
Last Wednesday evening, an 80-year-old man was found with his throat cut at his home in Longjumeau, a town of nearly 20,000 inhabitants located about twenty kilometers south of Paris.
The weapon not found
The alert came from her nurse: without news of her patient, the professional contacted the firefighters, who went to the home of the octogenarian.
There they found the man slain.
The weapon, however, was nowhere to be found and the apartment was locked.
"We can assume that one of the two drug addicts had the keys or recovered them, and closed the home shortly after the facts," said the source close to the file, specifying that the weapon had not yet been found. .
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