Two men asked a neighbor on Sunday evening for a saw to remove the body of a 54-year-old homeless man, who was stabbed extensively.
They will be presented to an investigating judge for murder.
Two men were to be presented to an examining magistrate for murder after the report of a neighbor to whom they had asked for a saw to remove a body, the Bourgoin-Jallieu prosecutor's office announced on Tuesday.
Sunday evening at Tour-du-Pin, in Isère, a man "had a somewhat surprising request: his neighbors asked him for a saw for a body to be removed", told AFP Dietlind Baudoin, the prosecutor de Bourquoin-Jailleu, confirming information from the newspaper
Le Dauphiné Libéré.
The victim, "more or less homeless", was then accommodated by the tenant of the apartment, added the magistrate, who opened an investigation in flagrante delicto for murder, entrusted to the research brigade of Tour-du-Pin.
Many stab wounds on a homeless man
This tenant and a friend present that evening have been in police custody since the arrival of the gendarmes on Sunday evening, and the case was to be transmitted to the Grenoble investigation center on Tuesday for the probable opening of a judicial investigation .
According to
the Dauphiné Libéré
, the three men drank and quarreled on Saturday evening, then the 54-year-old homeless man received numerous stab wounds, causing his death.
It was while trying to get rid of the body, found wrapped in plastic film, according to the regional daily, that the two men of 34 and 50 years knocked on the neighbor's door, Sunday around 10 p.m.