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Assia B.’s husband, whose body was found in pieces in the Buttes-Chaumont park in Paris, was placed in police custody on Thursday (23), according to sources close to the case.
The 46-year-old woman’s disappearance had been reported to the police on February 6 by the suspect. The judicial instruction was opened, on February 17, on charges of murder, assault on the integrity of a corpse and concealment of a corpse, according to the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office.
According to the newspaper The Parisian, the victim’s name would be Assia Matoug. At the request of investigators, Youcef Matoug, her husband, and the couple’s three children, aged 8, 14 and 16, went to the Paris Criminal Police Brigade building on Thursday morning.
Upon arriving at the scene, the man was arrested, while the couple’s youngest children were heard, but as witnesses. They all left the police premises at night.
The eldest son was briefly placed in police custody while the police verified certain statements, and then released.
inconsistencies
In an interview with French radio RTL on February 15, Youcef Matoug repeated his version of events, saying that Assia had left home on January 31 and that he did not ask her where she was going because the victim was in the habit of going to fairs to buy clothes. and then resell them. He claims to have stayed home to look after the children.
Since the beginning of the investigation, the various inconsistencies in the testimony of Assia’s husband have raised suspicions in the police. He only reported his wife missing on February 6.
According to information collected by the investigators, Assia rarely left her apartment, in the Montreuil district, on the outskirts of Paris, which explains why few people in the neighborhood knew her, according to The Parisian.
Unemployed, Assia lived with her husband, also without a job, and their three children. They had no passage through the police.