Europe 1 with AFP 12:46, May 27, 2023, modified at 12:47, May 27, 2023

The ex-spouse of the woman, found dead with her two children in Dreux, Eure-et-Loire, was arrested. On Thursday morning, rescuers discovered the bodies of a woman, born in 1987, and those of her two children, a 13-year-old girl and a baby about 18 months old. The criminal trail was privileged.

A 46-year-old man, suspected of the homicides of his ex-wife and his two children found dead Thursday in Dreux (Eure-et-Loir), was arrested Saturday morning in the Yvelines, announced the prosecutor of the Republic of Chartres.

"The ex-spouse of the deceased woman and father of the two children also deceased, was arrested in the town of Plaisir in the Yvelines," said prosecutor Frédéric Chevallier in a statement, confirming information from France info. Place in custody, the man will be "heard by the judicial police of Orleans on the facts of aggravated voluntary homicide," said the prosecutor.

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