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

A 14-year-old teenager was murdered. found died in the Pyrénées-Orientales. The death occurred several days ago when the police discovered the body. His mother is in custody and his step-father -father is hospitalized.

The body of a 14-year-old teenager was found by the gendarmes in Alénya, in the Pyrénées-Orientales, on the night of October 23 to 24, announces l'Indépendant. The young man had died 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.”

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“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 the mayor of Alenya, Jean-André Magdalou, on France Bleu Roussillon. “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 inhabitants of the commune to show a lot of restraint in their comments on social networks,” he defends. 

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The companion of the mother of the teenager killed was “born in 1982 and already convicted of violence and offenses drug legislation, “was hospitalized following a drug intoxication before the arrival of investigators”, according to a press release from the prosecutor's office. The PCF mayor of Alénya Jean-André Magdalou, stated that he had “recognized” homicide". 

15:12 – The father-in-law denounced by a friend

"A man came to the house. on October 23, 2024 at the Argenteuil police station (Val-d'Oise) to reveal having received the confidences of a friend, indicating to him having “smoked” “his stepson”, details the Perpignan prosecutor's office in a press release. It was with the help of this testimony that the police found the body of the teenager.