Two teenagers were arrested by police in northwestern France on Monday, a day after an 11-year-old boy was found dead with a wet towel tied around his neck, prosecutors said.
The boy was found on the banks of the Vilaine river in the northwestern city of Rennes with a wet towel tied tightly around his neck, prosecutors said on Sunday.
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On Monday, a 16-year-old boy was detained at his home, while a 15-year-old girl was detained after she turned herself in to police, Rennes prosecutor Frederic Teillet said in a statement.
“Therefore, it is the two young men who were seen with the victim at the scene on the afternoon of the event, who are currently in police custody on the charge of “killing a minor”, said Teillet.
The victim was 11 years old, not 12 as first reported, Teillet said.
The boy’s body was found after a fisherman alerted police to the cries of a child in the area, a police source told AFP.
Divers searched the river Monday as multiple police vehicles cordoned off the area.
"A child about 10 years old, I can’t believe it," a 57-year-old man walking by the scene who gave his first name as Stephane said.
