A man accused himself of having premeditatedly killed his parents and ex-parents-in-law. "He blamed his parents, of whom he was the only child, for being 'bad parents'," said the deputy prosecutor, and the suspect faces life imprisonment.

A fifty-something who gave himself Sunday to the gendarmes by accusing himself of having killed his parents and ex-parents-in-law claimed to have acted with premeditation, driven by a "fierce hatred". This was indicated on Tuesday by the Perpignan prosecutor's office. At the end of his prolonged custody, the man "will be presented following the requisitions of the Public Prosecutor's Office before an investigating judge for the purposes of his indictment of the count of the crime of assassination", specified in a statement on Deputy prosecutor of Perpignan, Luc-André Lenormand. 

"Fierce hatred matured for years" 

The alleged assassin admitted "having deliberately given the death to the four elderly people, with premeditation", Saturday and Sunday, the magistrate said, without details on how the victims were killed. 

"He criticized his parents, of whom he was the only child, for having been 'bad parents' and when it came to his ex-in-laws, whom he had not met for about 10 years, he described them as manipulative and demonic people ". "Ultimately", concludes the prosecutor, the suspect "had matured during all these years a ferocious hatred towards the victims. Hatred which led him to assassinate them on August 22 and 23, 2020".

"Suspicion of massive drug intake"

The man, who faces the penalty of life imprisonment, presented himself Sunday to the gendarmerie of Pollestres, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, claiming to have deliberately killed his parents living in Perpignan and his ex-in-laws domiciled in the locality near Boulou. 

The police officers mobilized in fact discovered these deceased people in their respective homes. The man was for his part "immediately placed in police custody and transported to Perpignan hospital for treatment following a suspicion of massive drug taking", said the prosecutor. The Perpignan branch of the Montpellier SRPJ was responsible for the follow-up to the investigation.