A total of five people have been indicted and imprisoned after the body of a man was found charred in a wood near Besançon in early March.
Three new people have been indicted and remanded in custody as part of the investigation into the murder of a man whose body was found charred in a wood in early March, public prosecutor Étienne announced on Thursday. Coats during a press briefing. At the end of March, two other suspects had already been arrested in Haute-Saône.
Four of them come from the Traveler community. The fifth is a thirties whose identity is not clearly established and who is nicknamed “Tix”, indicated Étienne Manteaux during a press briefing.
GPS tag on a vehicle
Arrested in Marseille at the end of March and already indicted for the assassination in Besançon at the end of February of Abdelkader Mesref, a 51-year-old man convicted three times for criminal association, he was, according to the investigation, present in the apartment of Besançon where the victim found charred was sequestered, according to the prosecutor.
Heard on Wednesday in this latest case, “Tix” remained silent and was indicted for murder, kidnapping, criminal association in connection with drug trafficking and drug trafficking, also reported Étienne Manteaux.
The indictments announced Thursday were notably able to intervene thanks to the investigations of the investigation unit of the research section of the national gendarmerie, which was able to determine in particular the existence of a GPS beacon on a loan vehicle found burned in the town of Pirey, near Besançon, further detailed the prosecutor.
Another person still missing
According to investigators, the criminals first sequestered the victim in an apartment in Besançon. Another person, still missing and whose DNA was found in this same apartment, was also sequestered there, said the prosecutor, which tends to confirm the links, hitherto assumed, between these two cases.
The autopsy revealed that the victim had been shot in the head and his body burned with at least 40 liters of gasoline, the prosecutor said. Those charged also have long criminal records.
“Their telephones are limited on the spot, but they do not understand”, was surprised the public prosecutor, while the defendants deny the facts.
