Teenager “beaten to death” in the Pyrénées-Orientales: mother and stepfather suspected

A 14-year-old boy was found dead in the Pyrénées-Orientales. The death occurred several days ago when the police discovered the body. His mother is in police custody and his stepfather is hospitalized.

The body of a 14-year-old boy was found by the police in Alénya, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, on the night of October 23 to 24, announces l'Indépendant. 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 sister of the victim were arrested in Bezons, in the 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 tried to to commit suicide before being hospitalized. 

The boy "beaten& dead" ?

What happened? ? The father of the child, questioned by l'Indépendant, claims 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 claimed "that her brother was dead and that she would never see him again." The local newspaper claims that the young man was allegedly " “beaten to death”. He was due to celebrate his 15th birthday on October 27.””The couple reportedly left him there to return to the Paris region where he was intercepted”, our colleagues report.”

“An investigation has been opened this Thursday morning by the Perpignan prosecutor's office for the murder of a minor under 15 years old,” declared Nicolas Brignol, deputy prosecutor. The investigations have been entrusted to the gendarmes of the Montpellier research section.

A “shock”

“It's a real shock, the town is in mourning,” reacts on France Bleu Roussillon the mayor of Alenya, Jean-André Magdalou. “We have not experienced such an event in our recent history,” he laments. The couple, who have been living in this town for a few weeks, had “never made people talk about them”. “I know very well that there will be anger, legitimate indignation. I share it. But I trust the residents of the town to show a lot of restraint in their comments on social networks,” he defends.