The investigation is progressing in the murder of a man in his forties, last Tuesday, in the town of Sézanne, in the Marne.
A 23 year old manwho acknowledges the facts, was remanded in custody and charged.
The victim would have spent the alcoholic evening with the young man and would have confessed to him to have been the author of a rape.
The first results of the autopsy reveal that the suspect allegedly stabbed him several times.then a pincer type object. Before suffocating him with a rag in the throat. He then notified the police.
The suspect has already been convicted twice for traffic offenses and was under a probationary sentence ordered in 2020.
The Reims public prosecutor’s office took over the case because of the criminal nature of this case. The main suspect was referred on Wednesday August 3. A judicial investigation of the count of murder by a person in a state of manifest intoxication. He faces life imprisonment.