BOBIGNY:
A 33-year-old French man who admitted to killing his spouse and their 4 kids claimed he “heard voices” telling him to “trigger hurt”, a prosecutor stated on Thursday.
French police on Tuesday arrested a person with a historical past of psychiatric sickness on suspicion of murdering his Haitian-born spouse and their kids aged 9 months and 4, seven and 10 years previous.
Their our bodies had been discovered on Monday, Christmas Day, at dwelling in Meaux east of Paris.
The person, a plumber, has been receiving remedy since 2017 for melancholy and psychotic behaviour.
Meaux public prosecutor Jean-Baptiste Bladier, citing the outcomes of Wednesday’s post-mortem, stated the youngsters’s 35-year-old mom and her 10- and seven-year-old daughters had acquired “round 10 stab wounds every” which had been “administered with nice violence”.
The four-year-old and nine-month-old boys “died of asphyxia following drowning”, he added.
The suspect was to look earlier than an investigating choose on Thursday. The prosecutor has requested that he be remanded in custody.
The suspect stated that he had “not been capable of determine a set off for his act”, stated the prosecutor. He has “felt nothing” and “felt empty” after murdering his household, the prosecutor added.
In accordance with Bladier, the suspect “indicated that he had been taking his day by day treatment” since 2019, however had not taken it on December 24.
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Police found the our bodies at a ground-floor condo in a working-class district of Meaux at round 9:00 pm on Monday.
Neighbours instructed police that they had heard cries downstairs through the night time of December 24 to 25, including that they had seen traces of blood.
An inquiry has been opened into the homicide of minors beneath 15 years previous, and homicide by a associate.
The person had been held in 2019 after stabbing his associate within the shoulder blade when she was pregnant with their third little one after which attempting to kill himself. She had refused to press expenses.
The person was arrested close to his father’s dwelling within the neighbouring city of Sevran.
“He liked his kids, he liked his spouse,” the suspect’s father, who had alerted police to his son’s presence after refusing to open the door, instructed broadcaster RMC.
“Possibly what he did there was unconscious, that he did not know what he was doing”, he stated.
“I do not perceive it but”.
The suspect’s sister was extra outspoken, saying she had helped elevate him.
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“There isn’t any one I liked greater than my brother, from start to the age of 4,” she instructed RMC.
She blamed him regardless of his situation.
“Irrespective of how many individuals inform me he is loopy, I do not give a rattling, I blame him,” she stated.
She described his slain spouse Beatrice as “the robust girl, the fighter, an actual lioness.”
The couple, who had been collectively for 14 years and married since October 2023, had met in highschool.
“She was all the time there for him, defending him. He could not have discovered a greater spouse,” the sister stated.
“She was the one who managed my brother’s treatment, his medical appointments, his paperwork.”
The Paris area has not too long ago seen a sequence of infanticides.
In November, a 41-year-old man confessed to killing his three daughters, aged 4 to 11.