In this case without body and without reported disappearance, the mystery remains whole.

In the Eure, a call for witnesses was launched in mid-November to try to elucidate the alleged murder of a cyclist last March, in vain.

“The suspect placed in pre-trial detention was released a few days ago,” public prosecutor Rémi Coutin said on Tuesday, confirming information from the daily

Paris-Normandie

.

“The released man remains under investigation.

He is placed under judicial control with a ban on leaving the national territory and an obligation to check in very regularly with a gendarmerie brigade, “said the prosecutor, indicating that” the investigations are continuing “.


“If testimonies from the call for witnesses were used by the gendarmes, unfortunately it did not lead to any concrete element allowing the body of the supposed victim to be found or to identify with certainty a person who would have disappeared” , commented the magistrate, specifying that the file “presents fragilities”.

A woman denounces her ex-boyfriend

The man was indicted in June on charges of "murder, concealment of a corpse, destruction of evidence and false denunciations".

In mid-May, a woman went to the Dieppe gendarmerie to denounce a murder committed, according to her, by her ex-companion.

She related that in March, this carpenter of Polish origin from whom she had just separated had called her, "obviously panicked and under the influence of alcohol, to tell her that he had just killed someone" by car.

The man retracted shortly after before reiterating his remarks.

According to his former companion, he confessed to having loaded the body and the bicycle into his car, registered in Poland, before hiding them and then returning to bury them.

Arrested on June 21, the suspect gave during his police custody “two diametrically opposed versions”, according to the prosecutor: first that of “a joke to his ex-partner so that she (…) returns to live with him", before explaining that he had "hit a cyclist well" who had recovered from the shock and left.

He also admitted to having set fire to his vehicle himself.

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Eure: Investigators helpless in the face of a confessed crime but without a corpse

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