AGI – He suffered from “psychiatric problems” The 33-year-old man was arrested by French police on the morning of December 26 and accused of killing his wife and four children at a house in Meaux, 40 kilometers east of Paris. The massacre occurred the day before when officers appeared on the ground floor of a residential building and were alerted by the victims' relatives.
Traces of blood were already visible on the landing. Home, next “extremely violent crime scene” Five bodies were discovered: those of the 35-year-old mother and her four small children, a ten-year-old girl, a seven-year-old girl, a four-year-old boy and a nine-month-old baby, Jean-Baptiste Bladier, prosecutor of the Republic of Meaux, explained in a statement Press conference.
“The mother and the two little girls were victims of a very high number of stab wounds,” impossible to count, the judge added. No obvious injuries were found among the children and the possibility is being investigated Asphyxiation or drowning. The autopsies will take place on Wednesday December 27th in Paris.
According to a police source confirmed by the prosecution, the in-depth analysis of the CCTV images led to the identification of the 33-year-old of French nationality, who at the time of the arrest was in Sevran (a suburb of Paris) in his father's house. The 33-year-old immediately said he “knew why he had ended up in the hands of the police” and spoke of “his personal dissatisfaction and depression,” Bladier added.
So the investigators reconstructed his story and found out Since 2017 he has been under medical care for depressive and psychotic disorders. Prescriptions for sedatives were found in his apartment. The man is said to have been the protagonist of domestic violence against the woman he had been with for 14 years, although the marriage only took place last October. In any case, the man’s criminal record is “clean”.
In November 2019, the man is said to have stabbed his partner up to the shoulder blade, when there was still a month and a half left until the birth. The victim, who was born in Haiti, refused to report the crime and did not want help from an association that helps victims of violence.
In each case, an investigation was opened and the husband was taken into custody before being admitted to a psychiatric ward. According to the judge, the man explained that he did not want to harm his wife, whom he loved: “The stabbing started by itself,” he would have justified himself.
This case was dismissed for mental incompetence. recalled the head of the public prosecutor's office. A report then confirmed that the man had lost his judgment.
The mother of the family was “a very good person who everyone knew, very cheerful. She lived for her family. He didn't work, she was the one who brought the bread,” Nadine Coulibaly told the press, identifying herself as the friend and neighbor of the house who alerted the police. On average, a woman is killed every three days in France: Last year, 118 women were killed by their partner or ex-partner.
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