His wife will have to receive a face transplant. A man was interned in psychiatry following his arrest on Saturday in Garges-lès-Gonesse (Val-d’Oise) for having seriously injured his partner by biting her in the face, AFP learned on Sunday from a police source and the parquet.
After a medical examination, the expert judged that the suspect’s mental state was not compatible with police custody and the 47-year-old man was placed in a psychiatric hospital, said the Pontoise prosecutor’s office.
Alerted by the cries of children
His partner, transported to Gonesse hospital seriously injured but without a life-threatening condition, was operated on for the first time during the night but she will have to receive a face transplant. The couple’s two children aged 6 and 10, who were in the apartment at the time of the events, were entrusted to Child Welfare under the femicide protocol activated by the prosecution.
According to the account of a police source, the police intervened around 2:30 p.m. in a building in Garges-lès-Gonesse, called by the neighbors. They had been alerted by the cries of the couple’s children, locked on the balcony by their father.
Delusional comments
When they entered the apartment, the officers discovered the suspect strangling his partner. She had what the source described as an “extremely serious injury” on her face.
According to what the victim said to the police on site, her partner had been making incoherent and delusional comments for some time, the prosecution reported. However, she could not be formally heard due to her condition. The investigation is entrusted to the Sarcelles police station.