A mom and her 4 young children have been murdered of their residence in a metropolis close to Paris in what native police stated was a “very violent” crime over Christmas.
The our bodies of the relations have been discovered on Christmas Day of their house in Meaux, France, the AFP news agency and the Associated Press reported.
Prosecutors stated the first suspect is the children’s 33-year-old father, and he was arrested on Tuesday.
Neighbors alerted police after recognizing a pool of blood outdoors the household’s door, and officers then found the our bodies, prosecutor Jean-Baptiste Bladier informed reporters.
He stated the 35-year-old mom and two daughters, ages 7 and 10, had been stabbed to demise, and two boys, a 4-year-old and the 9-month-old child, have been suffocated or drowned.
“The mother and the two girls had received a very high number of knife wounds,” AFP quoted the prosecutor as saying.
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“The human toll is horrifying, a whole family was killed, stabbed in an atrocious conditions,” Meaux Mayor Jean-Francois Cope informed the AP. “It’s an absolute horror.”
The suspect had recognized his wife since highschool and that they had been collectively for 14 years, however this reportedly wasn’t the primary encounter with violence.
Citing the prosecutor, the BBC reported that the suspect had attacked his wife with a knife in 2019, a month earlier than she gave delivery to their third little one. That case was dropped. Upon his arrest within the killings of his household, the man informed police he “knew why he had been detained,” and “spoke of his unhappiness and depression,” Bladier stated. The suspect was additionally seen with wounds on his hand.
The prosecutor stated the man will bear psychiatric examinations.
Neighbor Maissa Ketfi informed the AP that the mom was “fighting for her children.”
“She was never complaining and one day you just learn this,” she stated Tuesday. “Yesterday at night, we all had a big knot in our stomach when we learned. We were terrorized, four kids and the youngest was nine months. We cannot even imagine the scene.”