A family killer in Paris stabbed his wife in 2019

The French police arrested a man like the alleged perpetrator of the murder of his wife and four minor childrenwhose bodies were found last night in an apartment in Meaux, a city in the Paris region.

Victims, 35-year-old woman and four children from 9 months to 10 yearsthey were found on Monday night after some neighbors notified the police because they were unable to communicate with the family.

The apartment where the family lived “There were no signs of forced entry and the father of the family was absent,” the Meaux prosecutor’s office said.

Man He was arrested in his father’s housein Sevran Saint Denis, about thirty kilometers from the scene of the crime.

He the detainee had a history of mental problems and in 2019, he attacked his wife with a knife, although the case was closed due to his illness.

A man arrested as the alleged perpetrator of the murder of his wife and four small children in the city of Meaux he faces a possible sentence of life in prisonas prosecutor Jean-Baptiste Bladier announced at the press conference.

Charges will be filed against the man voluntary murder of minors under the age of fifteen and voluntary murder of a spouse.

The final duration of the sentence It will depend on whether a partial resolution change is established (maximum 30 years) or full, in which case the maximum sentence would be imposed, security measures to be determined, Bladier added.

So far, The accused, 33 years old, with serious hand injuries, was hospitalized and is in police custody.

He has not yet testified, but told authorities he knows “why he was in police custody” and aware that he “attacked his family”.

Except, He referred to his “personal discomfort” and “depression”of which the prosecutor’s office has been aware since 2017.

Among the victims, A 35-year-old woman and girls, one aged 10 and the other aged 7, suffered “many stab wounds” and they had defense markings, and children aged 4 years and 9 months would have been suffocated, the prosecutor stated.

The autopsies, which will be performed this Wednesday at the Paris Forensic Institutewill allow us to clarify the causes.

The considered author of the event, a qualified firefighter, Two months ago, he married his partner of 14 years. and whom I knew from high school.

The prosecutor described the apartment where they lived as the apartment of an “ordinary family”, although he witnessed the episodes Gender-based violence in 2019 when a man stabbed a woman.

An event that occurred after the man’s prescribed treatment was discontinuedthey led to a medical examination in which the “bad mental state” of the aggressor was determined, and the case was archived.

Then his partner did not report him and refused help from the victims’ association.

On the night from Sunday to Monday, Neighbors heard screams, although they did not attach much importance to them because they were “usual” in the house, as they told the security forces.

However, on Monday nightrelatives and neighbors contacted the police, who found the bodies in the house.