A 22-year-old man suspected of having killed a sixty-year-old in Gradignan, south of Bordeaux, was presented to a judge on Saturday for an indictment for murder, the prosecution said in a press release.
The victim was found at his home three to four days after the fact, the body comprising "3 to 4 deep wounds" inflicted "by stabbing at the level of the back and the neck", according to the first results of the autopsy.
The suspicions of investigators from the Bordeaux judicial police quickly fell on a resident of the town of 25,000 inhabitants, "residing near the scene of the tragedy".
The young man was known to the courts for having notably stolen two vehicles and a bank card from an individual as well as for "use of a falsified payment instrument", said the prosecution.
Arrested and placed in police custody Thursday morning, he constantly "denied the facts" before "acknowledging his presence at the crime scene".
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