A detainee from the La Talaudière penitentiary center was indicted on Friday January 30 for the bare-handed murder of his co-detainee, we learned on Sunday from a judicial source.
A 25-year-old prisoner died under the blows of his fellow prisoner on the night of Wednesday December 28 to Thursday December 29 at the Talaudière penitentiary center, near Saint-Etienne. The perpetrator was indicted on Friday, December 30.
Both were in their cell in the semi-liberty ward when the attack took place. Supervisors who were in another building were alerted by video surveillance images. The younger of the two was unconscious when they arrived there.
“The surprising explanations given by this man to explain his outburst of violence led us to wonder about his mental state”, André Merle, the deputy public prosecutor of Saint-Etienne, told AFP.
The magistrate simply indicated that the doctor who examined this 29-year-old man, indicted for murder and returned to detention, had judged his state “compatible with police custody”.
With AFP