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7:56 p.m., October 27, 2022
A few days after the disappearance of Justine Vayrac near Brive, the main suspect, a 21-year-old young man, confessed to having killed the young woman. The prosecutor announces that the man has been indicted for murder, forcible confinement and rape.
The suspect who confessed in police custody to having killed Justine Vayrac this weekend in Brive has been indicted for murder, kidnapping and rape, the Limoges prosecutor announced on Thursday. The 21-year-old man was placed in pre-trial detention and faces a life sentence, said Baptiste Porcher during a press briefing. “The first findings establish” that the 20-year-old young woman suffered a “plurality of blows to the face, including at least one with a contending weapon”, added the magistrate.
Four days after the disappearance of Justine Vayrac this weekend in Brive, the suspect confessed Thursday to having raped and killed the 20-year-old young woman, whose body was found near her home a few hours later. “The body has been identified, buried on the edge of a wood and partially naked,” a source familiar with the matter told AFP.
80 police and gendarmes mobilized
At the end of his police custody, after having confessed to the rape and the murder, the suspect had indicated to the investigators an area near his home where to look for the body of this young woman, mother of a two-and-a-half-year-old child, we learned from sources familiar with the matter. In the middle of the afternoon, a hearse passed in front of the farm where the suspect lives in Beynat, about twenty kilometers from Brive, observed an AFP photographer.
Since Monday evening, 80 police and gendarmes searched the surroundings of this farm and they had already discovered traces of blood in the room of the suspect as well as in his car. They had also discovered Justine Vayrac’s handbag “charred near” his home, Brive prosecutor Emilie Abrantes told the press on Wednesday.