2023-05-08 00:28:15
After turning himself in to the police on Friday for the murders of his wife and sister-in-law on the background, he said, of “conflictual separation”, a 39-year-old man was indicted and imprisoned on Sunday , according to the prosecution of Nîmes (Gard).
Initially opened to the public prosecutor’s office in Alès, the investigation was taken over by the public prosecutor’s office in Nîmes, which opened a judicial investigation and gave details of the course of the events in Salles-du-Gardon.
The mother feared he would take their baby to Morocco
Married since December 2020, mother of a 10-month-old daughter, one of the victims, aged 26, had decided to separate a few months ago from the respondent and had filed a handrail in December “to report that she was leaving the marital home of Cavaillon (Vaucluse), while fearing that the father would take the child to Morocco “where he is from, explains the prosecutor of Nîmes Cécile Gensac in a press release.
Friday, at the home that the young woman had occupied for only a few days near Alès, the man first argued violently with his sister-in-law, 39, reproaching her for her supposed “influence” and putting ” multiple lethal stab wounds. He then attacked his wife, hitting her in the throat causing her death, details the prosecution.
He was obliged to “leave the national territory”
In intervention at home and witness to the tragedy, a beautician was summoned by the individual to accompany him to the police station in Alès. On the way, he explained that he had a “significant dispute” with his in-laws, according to the prosecution, which specifies that the investigation will endeavor to verify all the “statements and arguments”. According the Midi-Freehe had assured that he had “acted for the good of his child” and that his in-laws were asking him for money to see his daughter.
After a judicial placement at the university hospital center of Nîmes, the baby will be taken care of by the departmental services of child aid, assures France Blue.
In an irregular situation, “the individual was administratively obliged to leave the national territory by the prefectures of Drôme and Vaucluse in 2019 and May 2022”, adds the prosecution. No criminal proceedings for domestic violence were in progress and he has no known criminal record on this subject in France.
It is a new tragedy that strikes the village of Salles-du-Gardon, three months after the body of Sihem Belouahmia, 18, was found in a wood on February 2. The number of feminicides increased by 20% in France in 2021 compared to the previous year, with 122 women killed under the blows of their spouse or ex-spouse, according to the latest figures available from the Ministry of the Interior.
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