The man suspected of a triple homicide in Carvin in Pas-de-Calais on April 5 has been indicted for murders, announced the prosecution of Bethune Monday. He was presented on Saturday to the investigating judge and charged with the counts of "murder on concubine", "murder on a minor 15 years old", "murder as well as violence against minors 15 years old by person having authority ", and he was placed in pre-trial detention.
On April 5 at around 10:45 pm, the police intervened following "a call from the neighborhood evoking a family dispute". In the accommodation, the police had discovered "three people seriously injured with stabs" and, despite intervention by the emergency services, their deaths had been "quickly observed".
The mother had lodged a complaint against her partner in October for acts of violence
A fourth individual, in his forties, according to a police source, presented "wounds corresponding to stab wounds he allegedly inflicted on himself", the prosecution said. This person had "spontaneously declared to be the author of the fatal blows, without giving any further explanations" and had been transported "in critical condition" to the Lille hospital center.
The three victims were his 36-year-old concubine and two of the latter's children "aged 16 and 11". The mother had filed a complaint against her partner in October for acts of violence. She had "then withdrawn her complaint" and the man had "disputed the facts". "In the absence of other convincing evidence", the procedure had been closed by the prosecution of Béthune.