the suspect of the double murder of Cholet says to have...

We know more about the profile of the man who admitted having killed two people and seriously injured an elderly woman, Saturday afternoon, Tuilerie-Leclerc district in Cholet (Maine-et-Loire). This 35-year-old man who recently experienced psychiatric weakness said he was “guided by God to act,” said Angers public prosecutor Eric Bouillard on Sunday.

Around 4 p.m., “he met these two elderly people, God would have told him that he had to go after them, which he did, and he returned home”, according to the prosecutor. The 82-year-old man will die while the 81-year-old woman was seriously injured.

Then, “God, the Catholic God, would have told him that it was also necessary to attack another, he came down and the first person he met is the third victim, and the second deceased”, reported Eric Bouillard.

He would have acted with his hands and feet

Then, “he returns to his home, he cleans up a little at home, as he had already done between the two attacks, and lies down on the sofa and he waits,” adds Eric Bouillard. He will be arrested around 6 p.m. by the police. “Significant” traces of blood, which were still being analyzed on Sunday, were found at his apartment.

At the start of the investigation, investigators looked for the murder weapon, which could be a “blunt object”. But, according to the statements of the suspect in custody, he acted with his bare hands and with his feet. A scenario qualified as “plausible” by the prosecutor, who evokes an “outburst of violence” which caused “multiple wounds on the faces of the victims”.

He says he had a “burn out”

The respondent said he had a “burnout” and said he worked as a salesperson in Cholet a few years ago. “He was hospitalized under duress for a year and would have been released last summer,” according to Eric Bouillard. The neighbors knew him “as someone a little disturbed”, said the prosecutor. The man was known for common law offenses. The three victims have no connection to the suspect, according to the investigation.

The suspect’s custody must be extended this afternoon while his indictment could take place on Monday. Investigations have yet to continue. The case is in cosaisine judicial police and departmental security.