Overview
- A 32-year-old man was formally charged Friday for the assassination of 29-year-old influencer Sonia Bellina and placed in pre-trial detention after gendarmes linked him to the body found on August 12 in vines near Saint-Gilles.
- In Alençon an information judiciaire was opened after a homeless sexagenarian was beaten to death and four youths aged 17 to 25 were charged, with a 21-year-old accused of murder on a vulnerable person and others facing non-assistance or non-denunciation counts.
- Two suspects, a 20-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman, were arrested in Lyon after an 82-year-old suffered a fatal cardiac arrest minutes after his gold chain was snatched in the Sans-Souci metro station and are held for robbery with violence causing death.
- In Marseille a 26-year-old suspect was arrested for a Corniche Kennedy stabbing but custody was lifted after authorities deemed his psychiatric state incompatible with continued detention and he was hospitalized under order while investigations continue.
- Prosecutors say DNA, surveillance video and witness testimony drove the rapid developments, families report intense online harassment in the influencer case, and these investigations may prompt closer scrutiny of crimes targeting elderly and homeless people and of how social media responses complicate inquiries.