The forensic examination confirmed that these were indeed the bones of a child aged 4 to 5 years old.
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Two people were indicted on Thursday for “murder of a 15-year-old minor” after the discovery of bones of a child buried in Pantin, in Seine-Saint-Denis, franceinfo learned on Friday February 9 from the public prosecutor’s office in Bobigny. This 65-year-old man and his 54-year-old ex-wife were placed in pre-trial detention. The bones were found as part of an investigation into the murder of a child 20 years ago.
The case began in January 2021, when a woman went to the Pantin police station and filed a complaint against her husband for death threats. In this complaint, she mentions the death of one of her sons, “then aged 4 or 5”, specifies the prosecution. The body of this child, born abroad in November 1997 from a previous union, was, according to her, buried “around twenty years ago”. The mother accuses her husband, the child’s stepfather, of being the cause of the death. She adds that she did not report the facts and lied to those around her by claiming that the child had gone abroad again.
Judicial information opened in 2023
An investigation is then opened by the prosecution to try to determine the existence of this child and to find a possible corpse. Research shows that the child does not appear on the family record book and has never been to school. Only an act of recognition of the child was drawn up at the Pantin town hall in November 2000.
A judicial investigation against X is opened on August 31, 2023 for “murder of a 15-year-old minor” committed in Pantin between December 2002 and December 2004. The two suspects were placed in police custody on Tuesday. Before investigators, the stepfather acknowledged the existence of the child and his death. He named his ex-wife as the cause of his son’s death. He also indicated the location of the body, “in the garden of the family pavilion in Pantin”, according to prosecutor Eric Mathais. The forensic examination confirmed that these were indeed the bones of a child in the victim’s age group.
