The Évreux prosecutor’s office announces that it has indicted and imprisoned a man accused of having killed and concealed the body of a cyclist, who has not been identified.
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LThe facts date back to May 2022. A 46-year-old man calls his ex-girlfriend and tells her that he knocked down a cyclist, before finishing her off with a shovel and hiding her body. Indicted and imprisoned, the man concedes having knocked down a woman, but denies having killed her. No body has been found and the alleged victim has still not been identified. It would be a woman in her sixties, according to the public prosecutor of Évreux. Investigators are still looking for his identity.
In mid-May, a woman went to the Dieppe gendarmerie to denounce a murder committed, according to her, by her ex-companion two months earlier. She related that, on March 9, this man, a carpenter of Polish origin from whom she had just separated, had called her, “obviously panicked and under the influence of alcohol, to tell her that he had just kill someone” in a car, Évreux public prosecutor Rémi Coutin told the press.
Completed with a shovel and buried with his bike
On March 13, his ex-companion had told him that he had hit a woman who was riding a bicycle while he was drunk. “This woman was in her sixties and looked, in her words, like a tramp,” the prosecutor said. The man told him that he loaded the body and the bicycle into his vehicle before hiding them in an embankment and returning with a shovel to bury them. On his return, the cyclist being still alive, “he had finished her off by shoveling her several times, before burying her with his bike”, according to the account reported by the magistrate. The carpenter had declared the theft of his vehicle on May 10, which had been discovered charred on April 12 on a road.
Arrested on June 21, the suspect gave during his custody “two diametrically opposed versions”: first that of “a joke to his ex-girlfriend so that she takes pity on him and comes back to live with him ” , before explaining that he had “well hit a cyclist” but that “she had recovered and was able to leave”. Eventually acknowledging that he had set fire to his vehicle himself, he “was walled in silence” when the investigators asked him why.
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Charged with charges of “murder, concealment of a corpse, destruction of evidence and false denunciations”, he was placed in pre-trial detention. “But we are faced with a particular situation since we do not have a body, nor do we have any identity as to the supposed victim”, underlined Mr. Coutin, who launched an appeal for witnesses. .
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