Placed in police custody on Thursday, the main suspect confessed. Youcef Matoug admitted to being the author of the murder of Assia, his wife, whose dismembered body was discovered on February 13, in the Buttes-Chaumont park, in Paris. According The Parisianthe husband of the victim explained that there were resentments within the couple for several years.
The Paris prosecutor’s office opened a judicial investigation for “murder, attack on the integrity of a corpse and concealment of a corpse” on February 17. The investigations were entrusted to an investigating judge.
Assia Matoug was a 46-year-old woman from Montreuil, in Seine-Saint-Denis. On February 13, at the beginning of the afternoon, a plastic bag containing the pelvis and thighs of this woman was discovered under a pile of green waste in Buttes-Chaumont by municipal parks and gardens agents. The woman was still dressed in “blue jeans” with a “floral decoration” at the thigh, according to a police source.