A Chinese national was found dead on May 16 in an apartment in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The Paris prosecutor’s office indicated on Tuesday that two men were indicted for kidnapping and murder in an organized gang.
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Two men were indicted and placed in pre-trial detention on Friday June 2, suspected of having killed a man of Chinese nationality, franceinfo learned on Tuesday June 6 from the Paris prosecutor’s office, confirming information from the JDD. These two men are indicted for kidnapping and murder in an organized gang. “In accordance with the requisitions of the prosecution, they were placed in pre-trial detention”said the prosecution to franceinfo.
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A 25-year-old man of Chinese nationality was found dead on May 16 in an apartment in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The prosecution then opened an investigation for murder and aggravated theft and entrusted the investigations to the Paris criminal brigade.
According to the first elements of the investigation, from a source familiar with the matter at franceinfo, the police intervened on May 16 at the start of the afternoon in the apartment. They were called by the owner who wanted to carry out work in the apartment. Her tenant was unresponsive, she eventually entered with some workers and discovered the dead body of the tenant. The investigators of the criminal brigade who moved on the spot found that the victim was lying on his stomach on his bed, with his hands and feet tied with clamps. The man showed signs of strangulation, he also had duct tape over his mouth.