The daughter of a man in his seventies who was murdered in Hagenau (Bas-Rhine) and his companion are charged with her murder without any apparent motive, the Strasbourg prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday. “During their police surveillance, the two women admitted that they went to the victim’s house with knives in order to kill him.– said Deputy Prosecutor Sebastian Pompey.
Last Thursday afternoon, emergency workers found the body of the victim, a 73-year-old woman, physically weak, with several knife wounds and a plastic bag on her head. The facts happened between Wednesday and Thursday night, the victim probably opened the door to her daughter and daughter-in-law, who did not have a key to the apartment, which was located in a residential area of Hagenau. 35,000 inhabitants.
No trace of intrusion was found. As husband and wife, the two women, 33 years old for the victim’s daughter and 39 years old for her companion, demanded their crime from a relative in the morning and fled to the Bordeaux area.
A couple with a proven psychiatric history were arrested later that afternoon after “excellent cooperationBetween the east of the DZPJ (territorial direction of the judicial police) and the DTPJ (territorial direction of the judicial police) immediately seized by the Strasbourg prosecutor’s office.
“Barely three hours passed between our alert and their arrest 1,000 kilometers away.“He met Mr. Pompey at the Bordeaux station. On Monday, the two women who were transferred to the capital of Alsace, who were considered co-authors of this murder, were presented on Monday to the investigating judge, who placed them in preliminary custody. “They do little to explain the motivations for crime or its destinationsaid Mr. Pompey. An autopsy was to be performed at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Strasbourg on Tuesday afternoon.
Source: Le Figaro
