A 14-year-old teenager died on the night of Monday to Tuesday in Landerneau (Finistère) while trying to steal a car, we learned on Thursday from the Brest prosecutor's office.
The young boy "found himself trapped between the bodywork and the door" of the car which he had pushed in a sloping street after having "released the handbrake while walking at side", told the prosecutor of the Republic of Brest Jean-Philippe Récappé. "The door came to knock on a vehicle" and he got stuck, he said, referring to a death by suffocation. The owners of the vehicle gave the alert on Tuesday morning.
"We do not know exactly the circumstances of the death"
"We do not know exactly the circumstances of the death," said Jean-Philippe Récappé, adding that an autopsy was to take place in the morning. The young boy, originally from the Brest region, had been placed in children's aid and entrusted to several families, but without success. For the past few days, he has been staying in a Landerneau hotel. "He had been checking everything for months," said Jean-Philippe Récappé.
The investigation was entrusted to the gendarmerie of Landerneau.