Triple homicide in Amiens: the spouse of one of the victims and main suspect placed in police custody

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His state of health did not allow him to be placed in police custody until now. The man suspected of having killed his partner, his three-year-old son and his sister-in-law, discovered dead in Amiens in mid-April, could be placed in police custody on Wednesday, we learned from the prosecutor of the Republic of Amiens Alexandre de Bosschère, confirming information from the Courrier Picard.

The bodies of the two women and the child were discovered on Friday April 15 in an apartment in Amiens that the older sister, aged 26, shared with her partner and their child. The day before, this man had been hospitalized following a road accident, “probably a voluntary collision, within the framework of a suicide attempt”, had announced after the discovery of the bodies, Alexandre de Bosschère.

“Suspicions converge on him”

He “presented, moreover, at the time of his hospitalization, traces of serious lesions which seem to indicate that he had tried to commit suicide a few hours earlier by other means”, he added. Given these elements and his “proven presence” in the apartment, “suspicions converge on him”, he had summarized.

The emergency services had intervened in the apartment after the report of a relative who was worried about not having heard from them for a few days. Known to the police and justice services for acts of forgery, fraud or concealed work, the suspect “has never been convicted of acts of violence”, had further indicated the prosecutor. According to the first elements of the investigation, the three victims “showed traces of asphyxiation”, the two women also bore traces of blows and the youngest “a trace of a stab wound, non-lethal, at the level of the neck “.

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