The owner of an apartment in the center of Besançon was indicted for murder and imprisoned after the death on Friday of a man in his twenties, found at his home lying in a pool of blood, it was reported. learned Sunday from the Besançon prosecutor's office.
Hospitalized for neck wounds, the 40-year-old suspect could be heard.
“His detention was authorized by a doctor who judged that his state of health was compatible with it”, indicated the deputy prosecutor Ludivine Fathi, without further comment on the statements of the defendant to the investigators.
Neighbors alerted by the suspect himself
The suspect was previously known to justice for violence, but no criminal act.
Heavily alcoholic, he was the one who alerted the residents on Friday morning through a window of his apartment, reporting that there was a death inside, the firefighters said.
After the police secured the premises, they found a man lying in his blood, with a large stab wound, in this apartment of a three-storey building located along the Doubs.
According to the regional daily
L'Est Républicain
, which revealed the facts, the suspect had evoked at the time of his arrest a fight which would have preceded the tragedy.
The prosecution, which had initially mentioned a squat because of the sanitary condition of the apartment, indicated that the respondent was the owner.
An autopsy is due to take place Monday morning.
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