The man, arrested on Christmas Day, the day after the discovery of a decapitated body in Albias (Tarn-et-Garonne), confessed. He was indicted for murder and remanded in custody on December 27, 2021.
A 52-year-old man, arrested on Christmas Day after the discovery of a decapitated body at the side of a road in Albias, in Tarn-et-Garonne, confessed during his custody. The interim public prosecutor of Montauban indicates in a statement that he was indicted for murder and placed in pre-trial detention, this Monday, December 27.
The alleged murderer said while in police custody “stabbing and kicking his friend and subsequently dismembering him for the purpose of concealing the corpse“. Anne Gaullier specifies that”the facts would have occurred around midnight on December 23, during an argument following an alcoholic eveningThe two roommates would have already experienced an episode of violence a few months earlier.
The decapitated body had been discovered by a couple of walkers on Friday, December 24, a few hours before Christmas Eve by the roadside, in Albias near Montauban. The head was then discovered the next day, “in a plastic bag, a hundred meters from the premises“, while “two severed forearms were found the same evening near the body“, had indicated in a press release, the prosecutor of the interim Republic of Montauban, Anne Gaullier.
According to the magistrate, the first findings of the forensic pathologist then reported “several stab wounds in the thorax and back“and the hypothesis”post-mortem body mutilation“was advanced.
The man arrested in connection with this investigation for “murder and attacking the integrity of a corpse” is 52 years old. Originally from Reunion, single and unemployed, the Parquet de Montauban indicates that he is “known to the justice services for two old convictions relating to acts of exhibition
sexual and death threats“.
In her press release dated December 25, 2021, the interim public prosecutor of Montauban had specified that the victim was “a 31-year-old man known to the courts for traffic offenses and facts of thefts“. Investigators then favored” the hypothesis of a heinous crime “.