The victim was found dead this weekend in the swimming pool of a house on the Tunisian island of Djerba. Three Tunisians have been arrested for the alleged murder, a judicial spokesman said on Tuesday.
The three suspects, including “the fiancée” of the victim, are suspected of “intentional homicide with premeditation”, said Arafat al-Mabsout, spokesman for the court of Medenine (south-east), on which depends the Djerba island.
The fiancée allegedly confessed to the murder
According to local media, the fiancée, in her twenties, confessed to the murder with the complicity of the two other arrested suspects.
The court spokesman did not reveal the identity of the victim but according to the French newspaper Provenceit is Romain Pizzato, a 42-year-old ski coach from the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.