Feminicide: a man kills his partner and their 2-year-old daughter in Seine-Saint-Denis

A 29-year-old man was taken into police custody this Saturday, January 8, suspected of having killed his wife and their two-year-old daughter with several stab wounds in Aubervilliers, where his sister broke out of windows to escape him, have indicated police sources and the Bobigny prosecutor’s office.

At around 2:10 a.m. on Saturday, emergency services intervened in an apartment in downtown Aubervilliers where there were two lifeless bodies, that of a 29-year-old mother and her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, said Eric Mathais. , attorney Bobigny in a press release Saturday evening.

The respondent’s 20-year-old sister was also stabbed and jumped out of the window of the apartment, located on the second floor of the apartment building, to escape her brother. “The latter was operated. His vital prognosis no longer seems committed, ”said the prosecutor.

In addition to the “family context”, the circumstances of the tragedy are still unclear for the time being, the prosecution said in the morning. A knife was found under the body of one of the victims.

Hospitalized after an accident

The suspect had fled by car shortly after the incident, before crashing into a wall. Having suffered fractures to his hand, to both ankles and a pneumothorax, he remained hospitalized on Saturday evening, according to the press release.

The man had already been convicted several times by the courts over the past ten years. But “as it stands, no complaints have been found against him for acts of domestic violence,” said the prosecution. The investigation opened for homicides against spouse and by ascendant and for attempted homicide was entrusted to the judicial police service of the department.

According to the latest report from the Ministry of the Interior, 102 women died under the blows of their spouse or ex-spouse in 2020. They were 146 in 2019.