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This 51-year-old university professor, father of a little girl aged one and a half, was stabbed in his house on the night of September 17 to 18.
Dramatic twist in the murder investigation opened Monday in Dunkirk? The wife of Patrice Charlemagne, a 51-year-old teacher found with several stab wounds at his home on the night of Sunday September 17 to Monday September 18, was placed in police custody, indicates the public prosecutor of Dunkirk in a press release, confirming information from the Parisian .
“After examining the testimonies, statements, technical and scientific findings, the Dunkirk public prosecutor’s office decided today to place the victim’s wife in police custody. The purpose of this measure is to compare his version of the facts with the elements collected in the investigation.», Specifies in this press release the prosecutor, Charlotte Huet.
The burglary trail seems to be fading
According to our information, the victim’s wife, a 37-year-old woman, had notified the police shortly after 4 a.m. indicating that the couple had surprised burglars, in the middle of the night, in their house in Rosendaël, in the urban area. from Dunkirk (North). She specified that her husband had remained inside the home, while she had managed to escape with their twenty-month-old granddaughter under her arm. Called, the police then discovered the father, with several stab wounds, in a bedroom on the first floor.
“All avenues were open at the start, including that of a burglary gone wrong. But now a lead other than that of a burglary seems likely. The victim received numerous stab wounds», explains to Figaro Marc Allegre, Unit-SGP delegate for Dunkirk. In her press release, the public prosecutor recalls that “everyone taken into police custody remains presumed innocent“.