Two bodies were found by the gendarmes during the excavations in Charente-Maritime, learned franceinfo from sources close to the investigation. A first body was discovered by the gendarmes on Friday evening and another on Saturday morning.
Two bodies were found by the gendarmes during the excavations on Saturday March 4 in Charente-Maritime, franceinfo learned from sources close to the investigation. Kevin’s body was discovered by the gendarmes on Friday evening, and that of Leslie this Saturday morning. No autopsy has been performed at this time.
The excavations to find the bodies of Leslie Hoorelbeke and Kevin Trompat, who disappeared last November in Deux-Sèvres, began on Friday in Puyravault (Charente-Maritime), around the place where the couple’s belongings had been found on December 8. , and continued on Saturday morning in the hamlet of Les Haies, which depends on the neighboring town of Virson. The Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN), based in Pontoise (Val-d’Oise), was dispatched to the scene to support their local colleagues.
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The excavations began Friday on a first plot and this Saturday they focus on a second site in the hamlet of Haies, which depends on the municipality of Virson, according to the reporter from France Bleu La Rochelle present on the spot. A dozen investigators are on site, agents from the Poitiers research section and the Deux-Sèvres group, supported by IRCGN experts. A drone filmed in the morning.
Suspect indicted for ‘murder’
Thursday, a first man, Tom T., friend of the couple, was indicted Thursday for “kidnapping and forcible confinement not followed by voluntary release” and also placed in pre-trial detention. Friend of the couple, he was to host them on the evening of their disappearance, November 26.
On Friday, a second suspect was placed in pre-trial detention and indicted for “murder”, “kidnapping and forcible confinement without voluntary release before the 7th day” and “modifying the inventory of a crime to obstruct the manifesting the truth”. The qualification of assassinations “leaves no hope of finding Leslie alive”, reacted on Saturday morning the lawyer for the family of the young woman, Me Mourad Battikh at franceinfo. According to information from France Bleu La Rochelle, this man is part of the couple’s circle of friends and is from Puyravault.
A third man, an acquaintance of Tom T., was taken into custody on Thursday and must be presented to an investigating judge on Saturday. Leslie Hoorelbeke, 22, and Kevin Trompat, 21, disappeared on November 26 in Prahecq, near Niort.