At around 2:30 am this Saturday, the emergency services intervened in an apartment in the city center of Aubervilliers to take care of three people including a child. The mother and child died soon after. The father was taken into custody, indicate a police source and the Bobigny prosecutor’s office. The sister of the respondent, also injured, was transported in absolute urgency to the hospital.
In addition to the “family context”, the circumstances of the tragedy are still unclear for the time being, said the prosecution. The investigation opened for homicides against spouse and parents and for attempted homicide was entrusted to the judicial police service of the department.
According to the latest report from the Ministry of the Interior, 102 women were killed at the hands of their spouse or ex-spouse in 2020. They were 146 in 2019, and the year 2022 has already started very badly, with murders in Saumur and Nice.