A 14-year-old teenager was found dead in the Pyrénées-Orientales. The death had been several days old when the police discovered the body. His mother is in police custody and his stepfather is hospitalized.
The body of a 14-year-old teenager was found by the gendarmes in Alénya, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, on the night of October 23 to 24, announces the Independent. The young man’s death dated back several days before this discovery which took place at his mother’s partner’s house.
The man, the mother and the victim’s sister were arrested in Bezons, in Val-d’Oise. The couple was taken into custody. According to our colleagues, the mother and her partner were reported to the police. The man allegedly attempted suicide before being hospitalized.
The boy “beaten to death”?
What happened? The father of the child, questioned by the Independentclaims to have had “suspicions of abuse”. “I couldn’t even tell my son that I loved him and I will never be able to tell him,” he lamented. According to him, his daughter “wrote a diary” in which she said “that her brother was dead and that she would not see him again”. The local newspaper claims that the young man was “beaten to death”. He was to celebrate his 15th birthday on October 27. “The couple left him there to return to the Paris region where he was intercepted,” our colleagues report.
“An investigation was opened this Thursday morning by the Perpignan public prosecutor’s office for the murder of a 15-year-old minor,” declared Nicolas Brignol, deputy prosecutor. The investigations were entrusted to the gendarmes of the Montpellier research section.
A “shock”
“It’s a real shock, the town is in mourning,” reacts on France Blue Roussillon the mayor of Alénya, Jean-André Magdalou. “We have not experienced such an event in our recent history,” he laments. The couple, who had been living in this town for a few weeks, had “never been talked about”. “I know very well that there is going to be anger, legitimate indignation. I share it. But I trust the inhabitants of the town to show a lot of restraint in their comments on social networks,” he defends .