A 14-year-old teenager indicted and imprisoned in Saône-et-Loire after killing his girlfriend

The adolescent body was discovered Thursday on the public highway in a wine village in eastern France. His boyfriend recognized the facts during his police custody.

Le Monde with AFP

A 14-year-old adolescent, who admitted, Thursday, June 9, having stabbed his 13-year-old girlfriend in a village in Saône-et-Loire to the death a few hours earlier, was indicted on Friday and imprisoned, Have we learned from a judicial source.

“A judicial information for voluntary homicide with premeditation or Guet-Apens (assassination) was opened today and entrusted to an investigating judge of the criminal center of the judicial court of Chalon-sur-Saône”, specifies the prosecutor of The Republic of Chalon-sur-Saône, Patrice Guigon, adding that the adolescent was indicted and placed under a deposit warrant.

The young boy was imprisoned in an establishment with a district for minors and a psychiatric health unit, according to the magistrate. A little earlier, the prosecutor of the Republic of Mâcon, Eric Jallet, initially seized of the file, had announced that the psychiatric expertise of the suspect had concluded “to a significant alteration of discernment, without abolition, making him accessible at this stage a criminal sanction “.

confessions during his police custody

Thursday in the early morning in Clessé, the adolescent body, presenting many wounds and a knife still planted in the neck, was discovered on the public highway near the town hall and its former primary school in this village Wine. The suspicions of investigators from the research section of the Dijon gendarmerie quickly turned to his boyfriend, who was arrested in the morning at the Lugny college, where the victim was also educated.

Placed in police custody for assassination, the college student quickly confirmed that he had committed the facts, said Thursday at a press conference Mr. Jallet. The latter drew the investigation on Friday for the benefit of the criminal center of the Chalon-sur-Saône court. During his referring to the investigating judge the young boy “wished to remain silent,” said Mr. Guigon.

This affair caused a keen stir in this village of 850 inhabitants located about fifteen kilometers north of Mâcon. “It’s a horrible day,” the mayor of Clessé, Jean-Pierre Chervier told the press. Without judicial history, the suspect risks as a minor a maximum conviction of twenty years of criminal imprisonment for assassination.

/Media reports.