The 28-year-old man, suspected of having killed a teenager whose remains were found on Tuesday in a pipe in a building in Saint-Priest (Rhône), was indicted and imprisoned, the prosecutor’s office announced on Saturday. Lyons. “The defendant in the Saint-Priest homicide case was indicted on the count of murder and placed under a warrant of committal” after his appearance in court on Friday, the prosecution told AFP.
“Investigations will continue on letters rogatory, under the authority of an investigating magistrate, in order to determine the exact circumstances and the motive for this action,” the same source added. The young man, whose criminal record “does not mention any conviction” and who has been “monitored for psychiatric disorders for several years”, was arrested on Wednesday the day after the macabre discovery.
An electric saw found not far from the building
The latter had been made late Tuesday evening after the alert given by a company that came to unclog the pipes of an apartment building, at the request of its owner. “Hands, a foot or pieces of flesh were found in these ducts. An electric saw was also found” not far from the building, according to the Lyon Mag site, which revealed this case on Wednesday.
“During his police custody, the defendant disputed the alleged facts while making increasingly incoherent remarks”, according to the prosecution, who reported “psychiatric expertise (…) necessary in order to ‘deepen the personality’ of the suspect. The victim is a 17-year-old young man, whose relationship with the alleged perpetrator of the crime has not been specified.
Unusual noises coming from an apartment
According to the regional daily Progress, the miner, who lived in Lyon with his family, had “mysteriously disappeared” on January 13 while he was going “to his place of work in Corbas”, a suburb located south-east of the Rhône-Alpes capital. Without news of him and despite searches by his relatives, his mother had reported his disappearance last Sunday to the authorities, according to the newspaper.
A tenant of the building, “whose toilets were no longer working, indicated that she seemed to hear unusual noises” coming from the apartment concerned on Sunday during the day, still according to Progress. A support system made up of a victim support association and a psychologist has been set up to assist the family of the young man killed, the prosecution said.