Suspect number 1, the Afghan husband deadly stabbed on October 30 should be handed over to the French authorities within two months.
The alleged murderer and husband of Razia, a 34-year-old Afghani stabbed to death in the street on October 30 in Besancon (Doubs), should be extradited quickly to France, said Monday the prosecutor.
The man was arrested on Friday, November 2 at the Athens airport (Greece), after the broadcast of an international arrest warrant.
Two messages as confessions
"We are very hopeful that the suspect will be extradited," because "we have strong clues to show his guilt, in that he has, by messages, already admitted that he was the author of the facts," Besançon prosecutor Etienne Manteaux said Monday during a press conference.
At the end of a call for witnesses launched after the tragedy, "two Afghan nationals, residing in Besançon, came to the investigators at the Departmental Security to explain that they had received one a voice message, the other a text message, in which he (the suspect) admitted to being the author of the blows to the victim, " added Etienne Manteaux.
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"In the next two months"
The investigation was very fast, said the prosecutor. It was only "72 hours between the fact finding and the arrest" in Greece of the alleged murderer, thanks to an international arrest warrant issued after the tragedy.
"There is a virtual certainty that in the next two months, the man will be extradited to France," he said.
The 38-year-old man, arrested by police officers at Athens airport, was jailed pending extradition to France.
Razia had filed several complaints against her husband
Housed for one year in an apartment of an association in Besançon that accompanies women victims of domestic violence, Razia was killed, on October 30, several stab wounds to the chest and neck returning from his shopping. The blows resulted in his death by rupture of the aorta.
She had filed several complaints against her husband in Marseilles and Besançon for voluntary violence against her husband, aggravated violence and repeated death threats.
After filing for divorce, she was granted a protection order by a family court judge in July, barring her husband from approaching her.
She leaves three children of 9, 12 and 16 years, the two youngest are now the subject of a temporary placement decided by the French courts.
In 2016, 123 women were killed by their spouse or ex-partner in France, about one every three days.