Illustration of the police at night -
E. Frisullo / 20 Minutes
Strasbourg police officers intervened in the night from Sunday to Monday in Ostwald, a town in the metropolitan area of the Alsatian capital.
They had just been alerted to the murder of a 7-year-old girl, says Europe 1.
It was the victim's father who himself called the police to confess his crime.
On the spot, the man led the investigators to the child's room, where he confessed to having strangled him in his sleep.
The 40-year-old was arrested without offering any resistance.
He was taken into custody.
An investigation was opened and entrusted to the Departmental Security of Bas-Rhin.
According to the first elements of the investigation, he would have acted "out of revenge", according to the radio.
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