CORSICA: French teenager kills parents and brothers
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AFP – A French teenager shot and killed his parents and twin brothers, apparently while they were asleep in their home on the island of Corsica, police said Thursday.
The 16-year-old boy was arrested after he told a friend who then alerted police about the quadruple homicide.
Investigators said they had yet to establish a motive for the crime.
The teenager used his father’s shotgun to kill both his parents, aged 43 and 45, and 10-year-old brothers at the house in the town of Albitreccia in southern Corsica on Wednesday.
The teenager did provide investigators with information allowing them to recover the gun that belonged to his father.
He has not given any explanation, he is tired and in shock, said police colonel Hubert Deininger.
Deininger noted he had no criminal record, lived with his parents, in an average family.
Investigators were looking at the teenager’s psychological profile. .
The boy turned up with a relative at a police station in the early hours on Thursday after apparently wandering the streets of the Porticcio area, meeting several people including a friend to whom he confessed, said deputy prosecutor Valerie Tavernier.
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