This Tuesday, April 26, 2022, the inhabitants of the priority district of Justice in Épinal, in the Vosges, were in shock, reports Le Parisien. ” I saw a lot of ambulances and police, but I don’t know which family it is yet “, confided a resident to our colleagues. Early in the morning, the police had to break down the door of an apartment on Avenue du President Kennedy after receiving a call from a worried neighbor. Alerted by cries from the accommodation next door, the latter made the decision to contact the police around 8:30 a.m. Inside, the officers discovered two lifeless bodies. The corpses of a couple of Kosovar origin… Parents of seven children aged 5 to 21.
“No hypothesis is privileged”
The victims, respectively born in 1977 and 1978, were killed with knives, according to Vosges Matin. During the tragedy, four children were present. France Bleu reports that these were taken to hospital. The other three, for their part, were at school. ” Some witnesses also claim that one of the teenage siblings had a knife in his hand when help arrived. a source told the local daily. The France 3 channel specifies that the victims would have succumbed to several fatal blows to the chest.
The family had arrived in this peaceful neighborhood less than two years earlier. Victim of domestic violence, the mother often took refuge with a neighbor, indicates Vosges Matin. Frédéric Nahon, public prosecutor of Épinal, told AFP ” the discovery this morning of the lifeless bodies of a woman and a man in an apartment in Épinal “. ” The investigation is ongoing, no hypothesis is favored for the moment as to the course of events. “. ” We must not start from the outset on a feminicide “, explained the divisional commissioner Bonillo before concluding: ” It is certainly more complex than that. Neighbors describe fights involving parents and children. Several hypotheses are possible “. To be continued…
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