Two men are being indicted for the murder of French Jewish politician Alain Ghozland. The men, aged 21 and 23 were arrested Saturday morning, the French daily Le Parisien reports.
They are accused of “Murder, robbery, arrest, arbitrary detention and forcible confinement and concealment.”
French Jewish local politician Alain Ghozland, 73, was found dead in his home on January 12, 2016 (Facebook)
Ghozland was found dead in his Paris home last Tuesday. An autopsy found he died of asphyxiation and had several contusions on his body.
Police investigators were said to believe his death may have have been a robbery gone wrong, but were keeping all avenues of investigation open.
Ghozland, originally from Algeria, was found by his brother, who came looking for him after he didn’t show up to synagogue a day earlier. He represented the heavily Jewish Parisian suburb of Créteil.
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