The 31-year-old man suspected of having kidnapped and killed a 14-year-old schoolgirl on Friday in Lot-et-Garonne confessed in police custody to having raped her, a source close to the investigation told AFP on Sunday. , confirming information from the log South West. This temporary worker living in Marmande had been in police custody since Friday evening and was transferred on Sunday afternoon to the Agen courthouse for the opening of a judicial investigation and his presentation to an examining magistrate, according to prosecutor Olivier Naboulet.
Abduction of the teenager after leaving college
He is suspected of having kidnapped the teenager at the exit of the Germillac college, Friday at midday in Tonneins, and of having killed her. On his instructions, the gendarmes found the body of his victim in an abandoned house in Birac-sur-Trec, about fifteen kilometers north of Tonneins. The alert had been given at the end of the afternoon by her mother, worried that she had not seen her daughter return from college. The investigators were put on the track of this suspect thanks to the exploitation of the images of the 28 video-protection cameras of the city of Tonneins.
According to sources close to the investigation, the victim was strangled but the Agen prosecutor refused on Saturday to mention a procedure before the autopsy of the body was performed. He also did not say if the teenager had suffered assaults of a sexual nature, awaiting “further forensic investigations”.
A previous conviction
According to South West, the suspect, a native of Seine-Maritime and socially integrated, lives in Marmande with his partner, mother of a 5-year-old child, and a baby they had just had together. He had already been sentenced to 15 days in prison with a suspended sentence of two years for sexual assault on minors dating back to 2006, when he was 15 years old.
Schooled in 4th grade, the schoolgirl was the eldest of three siblings. She lived in Tonneins with her brother, her sister, her mother of Spanish origin and her companion. A psychological support cell must be set up Monday in his college.