The public prosecutor of Chartres seized the territorial direction of the judicial police of Orleans.
A 36-year-old woman and her two children, an 18-month-old baby and a 13-year-old teenager, were found dead on the morning of Thursday May 25 in a pavilion in Dreux (Eure-et-Loir), learned franceinfo and France 3 Centre-Val de Loire. According to the prosecutor of the Republic of Chartres, Frédéric Chevallier, a friend of the thirty-year-old woman gave the alert, because she had planned to drive him to a garage. The bodies had wounds and “the first findings lead to favor the use of a bladed weapon by the perpetrator”.
The public prosecutor of Chartres seized the territorial direction of the judicial police of Orleans. He specifies that he is interested in the ex-spouse of this woman, but other leads are also being studied at this stage. “The hypothesis of the homicides of the two children by their mother and then the suicide of the latter is not completely ruled out but remains very subsidiary” added the magistrate, stresses that “the intervention of a third party in the commission of criminal acts” East “privileged”.
Ex-husband convicted of assault
The former spouse, currently wanted by investigators to be heard, had been sentenced in September 2021 for violence against his partner and daughter. He had received a one-year prison sentence, including four months suspended probation, the prosecutor told AFP.
At the end of his detention, his obligations, which included in particular the prohibition to enter into contact with his spouse and his daughter, “were respected”, according to the prosecutor. At the beginning of the year, the children’s judge had asked the sentence enforcement judge to lift the ban on contact with his daughter, in order to set up publicized visits.
Threatening messages on Facebook
According to information from franceinfo, the mother of the family had filed a complaint twice against her ex-companion since the beginning of May. A first time on May 9 for the filing of a GPS tracker under his vehicle and a second time on May 24, for a jewelry theft.
Hours before the bodies were found, the father posted two Facebook posts accusing his wife of cheating on him and hitting his daughter, along with photos showing bruises on one forearm. “I’m going to end my life”, he wrote. In a video, the forties, hard of hearing, speaks in sign language. “She has already cheated on me with other men, several times and that, my daughter knew it. (…) My wife told her that if she told me everything, she would hit her”he denounces, according to a transcript made by AFP.