Triple homicide in Amiens: the spouse of one of the victims placed in police custody

Europe 1 with AFP 08:02, April 28, 2022

A man suspected of having killed his partner, his three-year-old son and his sister-in-law, discovered dead in Amiens in mid-April, could be placed in police custody on Wednesday, his state of health not having allowed him until So, we learned from the prosecution.

This 48-year-old man was taken into police custody on Wednesday, Amiens public prosecutor Alexandre de Bosschère told AFP, confirming information from Courrier Picard.

The bodies of the two women and the child were discovered on Friday April 15 in an apartment in Amiens that the older sister, aged 26, shared with her partner and their child.

The day before, this man had been hospitalized following a road accident, "probably a voluntary collision, within the framework of a suicide attempt", announced after the discovery of the bodies Alexandre de Bosschère.

He "presented, moreover, at the time of his hospitalization, traces of serious injuries which seem to indicate that he had tried to commit suicide a few hours earlier by other means", he added. 

The suspect "has never been convicted of acts of violence"

Given these elements and his "proven presence" in the apartment, "suspicions converge on him", he had summarized.

The emergency services had intervened in the apartment after the report of a relative who was worried about not having heard from them for a few days.

Known to the police and justice services for acts of forgery, fraud or concealed work, the suspect "has never been convicted of acts of violence", had further indicated the prosecutor.

According to the first elements of the investigation, the three victims "presented traces of asphyxiation", the two women also bore traces of blows and the youngest "a trace of a stab wound, non-lethal, at the level of the neck" .