French police investigate murder of cyclist – but have not found body yet Driver allegedly told former partner he had hit cyclist while drunk – then killed her with blows of a shovel and buried her in woodland cycling
that police believe that on the early afternoon of Wednesday 9 March this year, north of Evreux in Normandy’s Eure department, the driver of a black Audi A4 carrying Polish registration plates was involved in a collision with a female bike rider – and subsequently bludgeoned her to death with a shovel.
Details of the case were revealed in a press conference this week by Évreux public prosecutor, Rémi Coutin, who said: “On the morning of 14 May 2022 a 48-year-old woman, residing in Saint-Saëns in Seine-Maritime, presented herself to the Dieppe gendarmerie declaring that she wanted to report a murder committed two months earlier, at the beginning of March, by her ex-companion.”
According to the public prosecutor, the former partner of the suspect “with whom she had had an affair since March 2019, and from whom she had just separated” said that he had “called her at the end of the afternoon, clearly panicked and under the influence of alcohol, to tell him that he had just killed someone, while he was driving his car.
He is then said to have told his former partner that he “put the body and bike into his car, hid them on an embankment, drove home then returned to the scene with a shovel, with the intention of burying the body and the bike.”
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