Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credits: JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP 21:36 p.m., May 29, 2023, modified at 21:41 p.m., May 29, 2023

The ex-spouse of the mother killed in the triple homicide of Dreux has been indicted and imprisoned, we learned from the prosecutor's office. He was arrested Saturday morning in the Yvelines, suspected of the homicides of his ex-wife and his two children found dead.

The man suspected of killing his ex-wife and their two children, found dead Thursday in Dreux in Eure-et-Loir, was indicted for "aggravated voluntary homicide" and placed in provisional detention, announced Monday the prosecutor of the Republic of Chartres. Aged 46, this man was arrested Saturday morning in the Yvelines. "The judge of freedoms and detention has decided to place the accused in pretrial detention" in accordance with the requisitions of the prosecutor's office, said prosecutor Frédéric Chevallier in a statement.

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