The owner of the house in whose garden a body was discovered has been indicted

On Tuesday, the body of a 47-year-old man was discovered in the garden of a house in Coutras, in Gironde. The investigation progressed in two days and the victim’s half-brother, a 58-year-old man, who had been taken into police custody, was indicted this Thursday.

He would have participated in hiding the body

He is being prosecuted for “receiving the corpse of a person who is the victim of homicide or violence leading to death without the intention of causing death” and “altering the inventory of a crime before a judicial investigation”, informs the prosecution. of Bordeaux this Thursday evening, after that of Libourne relinquished the matter. The accused would have participated in hiding the body underground, after having wrapped it in a blanket, specifies South West.

The fifty-year-old “will be presented to an investigating judge with a view to his indictment, the prosecution having requested referral to the judge of freedoms and detention for the purposes of placement in pre-trial detention”, specifies the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office. A judicial investigation into the murder charges was also opened against X to find the perpetrator.

The victim had been missing for several days.

Source: www.20minutes.fr