• A man was found near vines, his body shackled and stabbed.

  • Three people have been indicted in connection with this assassination, including a 26-year-old man who allegedly admitted to the violence and the stabbing.

  • Drug-related debt could be the cause of this assassination

Three people were placed in police custody on the rogatory commission of the magistrate of the correctional court of Béziers, then indicted.

They are suspected of being involved in the murder of a 26-year-old man who disappeared on April 20.

That evening, the victim was brought to the home of a man in Pézenas, where she was assaulted, then tied to the hands.

On April 28, while in police custody, "one of the men admitted to having then driven the victim by car to a wooded area in the middle of the vineyards in the town of Abeilhan [a town in Hérault], where he had stabbed him several times, ”explains the public prosecutor, Raphaël Balland.

A drug debt at the origin of this outburst of violence?

On his instructions, the investigating magistrate and a deputy prosecutor from the Béziers public prosecutor's office then went to the site with investigators from the Pézenas gendarmerie brigade.

They had found the shackled and lifeless body of the victim there.

The medical examiner detected around forty stab wounds.

The 26-year-old man who admitted having stabbed was charged with the charge of the murder, the second, aged 34, is being prosecuted for complicity in the murder.

Both were remanded in custody.

The 32-year-old woman, companion of the 26-year-old man, who allegedly witnessed the initial violence as well as the victim's obstructed departure, was indicted on the count of non-denunciation of a crime and placed under judicial supervision. .

The investigation carried out by the investigating magistrate will try to determine the motives of the perpetrators of this assassination.

“The woman notably claimed that a small narcotics debt could be at the origin of the facts”, continues the prosecutor.

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