After three weeks of fruitless searches of the Première student, the victim’s father filed a complaint at

the Service in charge of Criminal Investigations and fight against Organised Banditary of the First Gendarmerie Region.

The investigation led to the arrest of three suspects in the Manguiers neighbourhood. Their questioning enabled the gendarmes to arrest the alleged murderer in Douala, who had fled after his crime. The suspect immediately made a full confession. He declared that he had put rat poison commonly known as ‘Arata chop die’ in a loaf of bread laden with chocolate, which he had given to the young girl to eat in order to put her to sleep and satisfy her sexual desires, after she had rejected his advances. However, having noticed that the said remedy had rendered his prey unconscious, the suspect deposited her body at a place called Rail Ngousso before fleeing, with the complicity of his family, to Foumban and then Douala. However, during the reconstruction of the events, the alleged murderer also confessed to having taken the victim’s body and deposited it behind his elder brother’s house in the Manguiers neighbourhood. The body, discovered by local residents, was taken to the morgue before the alleged murderers were arrested.

The suspects have been brought under the jusrisdiction of the courts and the investigation is on going in search of other accomplices.