Moroccan Man Found Dead in Southern France; Two Suspects Charged with Murder

The body of the quadragenarian was found under a sofa thrown into a field along a railway line. On Friday, the Nîmes public prosecutor’s office opened a judicial investigation for murder, reports Midi Libre. The alleged murderer was arrested by the gendarmes of the Bagnols-sur-Cèze company. He would have intervened on the background of drinking and drug use in a house squatted by marginalized people.

This man from Compiègne (Oise) would have confessed his crime: a knife blow that completely slit the victim’s throat and a shot from a (modified into a handgun) rifle on his drinking companion. The investigators would have seized the two weapons. The second suspect was taken into custody for the needs of the investigation. He is suspected of having helped to move the body and hide it under the sofa.

On Thursday, the gendarmes took the two suspects to the Nîmes courthouse. Their interrogation took place in the office of Judge Cohen. The Nîmes public prosecutor’s office requested the indictment for murder for the first with placement in detention and an indictment for concealment of a body and modification of the crime scene for the second.