the suspect indicted for “aggravated intentional homicides” and remanded in custody

The suspected man of having killed his ex-wife and their two children, found dead in their pavilion in Dreux (Eure-et-Loir) on Thursday May 25, was indicted on Monday for “aggravated intentional homicides” and placed in pre-trial detention, a announced the parquet floor of Chartres in a press release. “In accordance with the requisitions made by the Chartres prosecution, the judge of freedoms and detention decided to place the accused in pre-trial detention”, specifies the public prosecutor of Chartres, Frédéric Chevallier.

Before his indictment, the prosecutor had announced to AFP that the suspect had been hospitalized, after having intentionally injured himself on Monday before his presentation to a magistrate from the Chartres prosecution. The suspect appears to have “tried to choke” during his referral to the prosecution, “before his passage in front of the JLD (liberty and detention judge)“, specified Frédéric Chevallier, confirming information from theRepublican Echo.

A man sentenced in 2021

The suspect was arrested on Saturday in Plaisir (Yvelines). Monday morning, the public prosecutor of Chartres announced that a judicial investigation was going “be open to the counts of aggravated intentional homicide”. This man is suspected of carrying “about forty shots” knife to his ex-spouse and a dozen to each child. Monday, “he continued to deny any participation in these facts, indicating that he was the victim of a conspiracy”, according to the prosecutor.

He had been sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, including four months suspended probation in September 2021, for violence against his wife and daughter. Hours before the bodies were discovered on Thursday, the suspect had posted two Facebook posts accusing his wife of cheating on him and hitting his daughter, along with photos showing bruises on one forearm. Autopsies of the three bodies are scheduled for Tuesday.