Overview
- Police found the boy’s body on a wooded riverbank with a towel tightly bound around his neck and an autopsy confirmed he died by strangulation.
- A 16-year-old boy was arrested and a 15-year-old girl turned herself in; both have confessed and said they acted to get back fishing gear worth a few dozen euros.
- Suspect statements conflict with the victim’s parents, who say the 16-year-old had given the lures to the child, and investigators say the accounts do not fully match.
- Custody for both juveniles has been extended and they are to be presented to a Rennes court while prosecutors consider charging them with murder of a minor.
- Neighbors heard a child’s screams and witnesses saw two people flee the scene, and investigators are still collecting evidence and reconciling discrepancies in the case.