The defendant admitted to having repeatedly struck the victim, aged 47, during an alcoholic party. He was remanded in custody.
A 23-year-old man was indicted for murder and remanded in custody, BFMTV.com learned this Tuesday morning from the Dijon prosecutor’s office. The individual, already convicted of traffic offenses and known to the gendarmerie for violence, is suspected of having fatally struck a 47-year-old man during an alcoholic party on Saturday evening in an apartment in Châtillon-sur-Seine. , in Côte-d’Or, revealed The public good.
The hubbub of the fight worried the neighborhood who ended up alerting the gendarmerie. On the spot, the agents discovered “a very agitated individual, while another gave a cardiac massage to a man on the ground”, details the public prosecutor of Dijon, Olivier Caracotch.
“State of excitement and nervousness”
“The state of excitement and nervousness of the first individual forced the police to control him so that the SAMU could rescue the 47-year-old victim, whose death was nevertheless quickly noted”, adds. -he.
The very evening of the altercation, two men were taken into custody and one of them – the 23-year-old suspect – admitted to being the author of the blows which led to the death of the victim. Presented to an investigating judge on Monday evening, he was therefore indicted for murder and placed in provisional detention.
