DISAPPEARANCE Two suspects confessed to stealing a car and killing its driver before abandoning it on a road
A helicopter flew over the town of Saint-Barbant in the hope of finding this motorist. (ILLUSTRATION PHOTO) — Canva
Two individuals confessed to to have killed a man and stolen his car. The alleged victim, aged 69, is actively sought in Creuse, according to a source close to the investigation, which confirms information from the regional press . The Limoges public prosecutor’s office opened an investigation on Friday for “ death,” from the same source.
The facts date back to November 13 when two men were arrested. arrested in the neighboring department of Allier for a vehicle theft case, with violence against a motorist. In custody view, the two suspects confessed to having stolen, before these facts, another car and killed its driver before abandoning it on a road, possibly in the Creuse, according to their statements.
A helicopter flew over it. the area
The two fugitives would then have continued on their way, before having an accident in the Allier where has been found the car registered in the name of a resident of Saint-Barbant (Haute-Vienne). Its owner, a Frenchman living in Switzerland, would have met his executioners in this same commune where he owned another residence.
The research section of the Limoges gendarmerie is in charge of the investigation. “The gendarmes undertook quite a lot of research, there was even a helicopter which flew over the area. the commune,” on his side Christine Séguy, former mayor of Saint-Barbant. In a message on social networks, the French Federation of Creuse Hunters urged its members to “be very careful” during hunting trips and “not to touch nothing” in case of discovery of the body “in a ditch; or near it, along a secondary road” and “to contact the gendarmerie immediately.