The mother of the 14-year-old Emilio, found dead last week in the family home in Alénya (Pyrénées-Orientales), near Perpignan, was indicted for murder of a 15-year-old minor and imprisoned. The boy’s stepfather must also be presented to a judge on Wednesday for indictment for the same crime. “Requisitions for a committal warrant will also be taken against him, in particular because of the exceptional and lasting disturbance to public order,” said the deputy public prosecutor, Nicolas Brignol.
“The autopsy carried out on Monday at the Montpellier University Hospital confirmed that a multitude of violent blows were inflicted on the entire body of the unfortunate victim,” he declared. The couple was arrested in Val-d’Oise where they had fled. The stepfather, “already convicted of violence and drug law violations,” had been “hospitalized following drug absorption before the arrival of investigators,” the prosecutor said on Friday.
“I smoked my stepson”
For her part, the mother, “never convicted”, had been “placed in police custody in Argenteuil”, before being brought back to the Pyrénées-Orientales where she was indicted on Monday evening. She was a childminder in the neighboring town of Saint-Cyprien. The family was “known for procedures linked to a conflictual separation of the parental couple”, the prosecution also affirmed.
The case began with the revelations of a friend of the father-in-law, who came to the Argenteuil police station to report that the 42-year-old man had confided to him “that he had smoked his son-in-law”. The friends of Emilio, who was to celebrate his 14th birthday on October 27, planned to organize a white march in his memory, Sunday November 3.
