The father of the 12-year-old child who threw himself out of a window in mid-March in the 15th arrondissement of Paris was placed in police custody, under the status of assisted witness, indicates the Paris prosecutor’s office 20 minutes, confirming information from Parisian. A judicial investigation is open.
The father “was placed in police custody at the minor protection brigade on April 2, 2024. The Paris juvenile prosecutor’s office opened a judicial investigation on April 3, 2024 for habitual violence against a minor leading to death without intention of the give. The man was placed under witness status assisted by the investigating magistrate,” the prosecution specifically indicates.
The assisted witness is a person implicated in a judicial investigation, whom the investigating judge has not indicted. This means that there was no “serious or consistent” evidence to indict him.
Farewell letter
The child fell from his parents’ home, located on the third floor of a building on Boulevard Garibaldi. Called to the scene, the firefighters could only note the boy’s death upon their arrival. According to the first elements of the investigation, the child’s action would have followed an argument with his father, suggesting suicide. He also left a farewell letter.
Habitual violence against a minor under fifteen years of age is punishable by thirty years of criminal imprisonment when it results in the death of the victim. In France, forced suicide, that is to say a form of moral harassment leading to the suicide of the victim, is only recognized within the couple.