A 14-year-old boy, who confessed to killing his 13-year-old girlfriend, was taken to a facility with a section for minors.
Imprisoned for the assassination of his 13-year-old girlfriend: a 14-year-old teenager, who confessed to the facts, was indicted on Friday in this case which caused a great stir in their village of Saône-et-Loire.
The young boy was imprisoned in an establishment with a section for minors and a psychiatric health unit, according to the public prosecutor of Chalon-sur-Saône, Patrice Guigon, who did not immediately give indication of the motive for the crime.
Early Thursday morning in Clessé, the body of a teenager, with numerous wounds and a knife still stuck in her neck, was discovered on the public highway near her former primary school in this wine-growing village.
The suspicions of the investigators of the research section of the Dijon gendarmerie quickly fell on her boyfriend, who was arrested in the morning at the college of Lugny, where the victim was also educated.
Placed in police custody for murder, the schoolboy quickly confirmed having committed the facts during a night meeting.
“He admits having agreed to an appointment with this young girl, having taken a knife which he had placed in his sleeve, and having stabbed her three times in the neck,” he said on Thursday. during a press conference the prosecutor of Mâcon, Eric Jallet, initially in charge of the file.
The victim then “tried to flee, but the suspect tried to strangle him and then stabbed him again”, he added, specifying that the two teenagers had become accustomed to meeting between midnight and 4 hours in Clessé.
His body showed “several dozen stab marks on the chest, shoulders, face and neck” as well as several “defense injuries” on the forearms in addition to a broken nose.
The village in shock
The disappearance of the young girl, a pupil in 4th grade, had not been noted by her parents until the morning.
The first testimonies collected by the investigators indicated that the suspect had in the past had “disturbing words”, evoking his desire to “kill someone and in particular his girlfriend”, with whom he had a relationship enamelled with ruptures and reconciliations.
On Friday, the teenager’s new hearings again “highlighted the young man’s desire to kill”. “He thought his act could be facilitated by the fact that the victim loved him. He said he had trained in the handling of the knife. He described the blows with precision,” added Mr. Jallet, who withdrew. for the benefit of the judicial court of Chalon-sur-Saône, competent in criminal matters.
The psychiatric examination of the young boy concluded with “a significant alteration of discernment, without abolition, making it accessible at this stage to a criminal sanction”, further specified the magistrate.
The wine-growing village of Clessé (Saône-et-Loire) remained in shock the day after the macabre discovery. Bouquets of flowers were visible along the small path behind the school, where the teenager lost her life, noted an AFP journalist.
By late morning, faces were closed as they exited the victim’s former school. Out of respect for his family, whom most residents know well, very few have spoken. “We are in mourning”, summed up in particular a resident of Clessé.
A psychological unit has been set up for students and teachers at the Victor Hugo college in Lugny, where the victim and his alleged murderer were educated.
Without a criminal record, the suspect risks as a minor a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison for murder.