the victim’s husband was taken into custody

Assia B.’s husband was placed in police custody on Thursday February 23, franceinfo learned from a source familiar with the matter, confirming information from the Parisian. The members of his wife were found on February 13 in the Parisian park of Buttes-Chaumont.

The disappearance of the 46-year-old woman had been reported to the police on February 6 by the suspect. Judicial information was opened, on February 17, of the counts of assassination, attack on the integrity of a corpse and concealment of a corpse, France Télévisions learned from the Paris prosecutor’s office.

The disappearance dates back to January 31

Unemployed, Assia B. lived with her husband, unemployed, and their three children, in a building in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis), said a source close to the investigation to France Télévisions, adding that the couple was unknown to the police.

Interviewed by RTL on February 15, her husband affirmed that the disappearance of Assia B. dated back to January 31. According to him, his wife left the family home that day and used to go to street markets to buy clothes and resell them to individuals. “I stayed at home to take care of the children, because there was no school that day. They all go to school in Paris”, he says. According to him, his wife did not return in the evening: “My wife used to use a taxi app to come home late, which she didn’t do that night.”