Two women were found dead on Wednesday in a Paris apartment.

A suspect has been arrested, an investigation for "intentional homicides" is opened.

A man suspected of having killed two women in an apartment in Paris on Wednesday was arrested and placed in police custody, we learned from the Paris prosecutor's office and from a source close to the case.

The investigation for "intentional homicides" was entrusted to the 2nd district of the Paris judicial police, said the prosecution, confirming information from Point.

"An object embedded in the skull"

It was a neighbor who alerted the emergency services at the end of the day "after hearing cries" in this building in the Belleville district (twentieth), in the east of the capital, said the source close to the file.

On the spot, the police discovered a man covered in blood and the two victims, one had "an object stuck in the skull" and the other, "in cardiopulmonary arrest", that the emergency services could not revive, a we detailed the same source.

The suspect was immediately arrested and taken into police custody.

According to the first elements of the investigation, the double murder was caused by a family dispute.