A man held in police custody for stabbing a man in Strasbourg in mid-August spontaneously confessed to killing a woman who was found dead in a field in Ostwald, in the Bas-Rhin, in July, AFP reported on Thursday. police source.
"Both cases are related to drug addiction"
Already known to the police and justice, this 35-year-old man was arrested in mid-August with a knife and clothes stained with blood after he seriously injured a knife man in his apartment in the station area in Strasbourg, France. explained this source, confirming information from Les Dernières nouvelles d'Alsace .
In custody for this attempted murder, "he made spontaneous statements to the investigators about his presence on the scene" where the body of a drug addict woman of 41 years was discovered on July 21, in Ostwald. "He accuses himself but we still need to verify, it must be compatible with the findings forensic and what investigators have collected as evidence of investigation," said this source. "We should have a rogatory commission that links him to the killing [of this woman, editor's note] and asks us to investigate," she added, adding that "the two cases are related to drug addiction" and that " 'arrested individual appeared in the entourage' of this woman.
According to the DNA , the man led the investigators to the scene of the incident and allowed them to find belongings of the victim, named Céline, in an undergrowth, then led them to the place where he was. was stripped of a knife. He allegedly stabbed her repeatedly after an argument provoked by jealousy, says the regional newspaper.