the father admitted the facts

The main suspect declared in police custody that he heard voices, according to a source close to the investigation at France Télévisions.

He admitted to the quintuple murder. The man arrested after the discovery of the bodies of a woman and her four children, in their apartment in Meaux (Seine-et-Marne), admitted all the facts while in police custody, declared Thursday 28 December a source close to the investigation at France Télévisions, confirming information from BFMTV. According to this source, the man said he heard voices.

During a press conference, prosecutor Jean-Baptiste Bladier explained that the main suspect had “informally indicated knowing why he was in police custody” and said “attacked his family”evoking “his personal unhappiness and depression”.

An investigation was opened on Tuesday for “intentional homicide of minors under 15” and “intentional homicide by spouse”. She was entrusted to the Versailles judicial police. The judicial authorities will have to determine in particular whether or not there was an alteration of discernment at the time of the facts.

Stabbings in 2019

The father, aged 30, has been monitored since 2017 for depressive and psychotic disorders. Although this man’s criminal record is clean, legal proceedings dated November 2019 report violence involving stabbing of his wife when she was pregnant. At the time, she refused to file a complaint and the procedure was dismissed, on the grounds of a deficient mental state.

Alerted by a neighbor, the police discovered the lifeless bodies of the young woman and four children, aged 9 months, 4 years, 7 years and 10 years, around 9 p.m. Monday, in the family apartment. The main suspect was arrested Tuesday morning near his father’s home, in Sevran (Seine-Saint-Denis), and placed in police custody.