(Bobigny) A 33-year-old father confessed to having killed his wife and their four children in Meaux near Paris, explaining that he had “heard voices” asking him to “do harm,” the prosecutor said on Thursday. city.
According to the results of the autopsies of the bodies, discovered Monday evening, the 35-year-old mother and her little girls aged 10 and 7 were “victims of around ten stab wounds each”, “administered with very great violence” , said the prosecutor, Jean-Baptiste Bladier, in a press release. The boys aged 4 years and 9 months “died of asphyxia following drowning”, he added.
The procedure was confirmed by the father during the hearings. The latter also declared that he had “not been able to identify a trigger for his act,” the prosecutor wrote. “He specified that, since the events, he “felt nothing” and “felt empty”.”
The question of psychiatric follow-up quickly arose for this man who was receiving treatment to treat psychotic and depressive disorders.
According to the prosecutor, he “indicated that he was in the habit of taking his daily medication treatment to which he was required – in a non-judicial context – since 2019, but not having taken it on December 24”.
The precise date of the tragedy was not communicated by the prosecution. The police discovered Monday evening, the day after Christmas Eve, the bodies in different rooms of the family home, located in a residence in Meaux.
The authorities had been alerted by neighbors worried about the lack of news from the mother.
The prosecutor requested the indictment and placement in pre-trial detention of the father as part of the investigation opened for “intentional homicide of minors under 15” and “intentional homicide by spouse”.