On December 31, 2022, a man stabbed his partner to death in front of four young children of the family, in their house located in the Ardennes. Charged with murder, he was immediately remanded in custody.
A very strange way to wish the new year. This December 31, 2022 was marked by a terrible news item, in the heart of the small yet very quiet village of Charleville-Mézières, located in the Ardennes. According to information from several local media, a father killed his partner with a knife. If the police intervened quickly after being alerted by the neighbors who had heard cries and cries for help, the latter could not do anything: the 23-year-old woman was lifeless on the ground, killed by several stab wounds.
While a team of law enforcement officers were analyzing the extent of the damage, another patrol went in search of the culprit, who was not found until eight in the morning on a street in the neighborhood. The autopsy will then show “thirty wounds carried by two knives, considering the nature of the wounds”according to The unionwhich specifies that two knives “with the blade bent” were found by the police near the body of the young woman.
He kills his companion with more than thirty stab wounds
While in custody, the suspect said “to have been enraged and to have struck his companion three to four times with a single knife, in particular to the neck and to the thorax, and that the violence of the blows had bent the blade of his knife“. Already known to justice and convicted on several occasions, in particular for acts of violence, the alleged murderer also confessed to the police “that his victim had asked him to stop, without success, and that he had stopped hitting her only when she told him that her son had witnessed the scene”. Because four minors (the victim’s two young children and two of his nephews) witnessed this atrocious scene… The man is currently imprisoned awaiting his judgment.