2023-08-16 15:37:17
A tribute ceremony to Stéphane Vitel in front of his former school in Livarot-Pays-d’Auge, August 15, 2023. LOU BENOIST / AFP
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 and a 17-year-old minor, according to a press release from the Caen prosecutor’s office, which took up the investigation.
According to the public prosecutor, the two suspects admitted “entering the college by breaking down a door” but they would have left the place before the arrival of the principal. “Which seems to be confirmed by the exploitation of the telephone of one of them”, says the prosecution. A press conference is to be held Wednesday evening.
Early Friday morning, while he was on the vacation route 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 unconscious, Ms. Vitel told BFM-TV.
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The autopsy carried out on Monday did not allow « is [d’]exclude the intervention of a third party, or [d’]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 reported a trace of break-in on a secondary door of the college, according to the same source, but no disorder was found inside the building.
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