After the death of a college principal in Lisieux (Calvados) on Friday, two people were arrested, announced the public prosecutor of Caen, Joël Garrigue, Wednesday August 16. The arrested are a 19-year-old person and a 17-year-old minor, according to a statement from the Caen prosecutor’s office, which took up the investigation.
According to the public prosecutor, the two suspects admitted “to having entered the college by breaking down a door” but they would have left the premises before the arrival of the principal. “What seems to be confirmed by the exploitation of the telephone of one of them”, specifies the prosecution. A press conference is to be held Wednesday evening.
Early Friday morning, while he was on the road to vacation with his family, the director of the Pierre-Simon-de-Laplace college, Stéphane Vitel, was informed of the triggering of the anti-intrusion alarm in his establishment. He then drove there, leaving his wife and children in the car. It was his daughter who found the 48-year-old man lifeless, Ms. Vitel told BFM-TV.
The autopsy carried out on Monday did not make it possible “neither [to] exclude the intervention of a third party, nor [to] establish with certainty a natural cause of death”, said the Lisieux prosecutor’s office in a brief press release. , adding that additional analyzes had been requested. The first findings showed a trace of a break-in on a secondary door of the college, according to the same source, but no disorder was found inside the building.
