The bodies were found buried in Revest-du-Bion, in the Luberon. Two days later, two people were arrested and placed in police custody, said the public prosecutor of Aix-en-Provence on Thursday.
The bodies could belong to the two men, 25 and 26, who went missing more than a month earlier, prosecutor Achille Kiriakides said in a statement, adding that an autopsy was underway.
The gendarmes of the Marseille research section, assisted by those of Forcalquier, arrested on Tuesday and placed in police custody a first suspect, brought before an investigating judge on Thursday. “A second person was arrested on February 5, 2020 and placed in police custody,” adds Achille Kiriakides.
According to Le Parisien, which revealed these two arrests, the suspects are two brothers, to whom the two missing, from Aude, went in mid-December. The bodies were found on their property.
The two young men, Gabriel Ferchal, 25, and Julien Boumlil, 26, came from Malves-en-Minervois (Aude). They had gone to Revest-du-Bion by car and had disappeared the same day, at the beginning of December. The mobile phone of one of them had stopped a few hours later in Rognes, in the Bouches-du-Rhône.
