The 33-year-old father suspected of having killed his wife and their four children in Meaux, discovered dead Monday evening, admitted the facts and said he “heard voices” asking him to “do harm”, said Thursday the prosecutor.
Since the events, the father says he “feels nothing”
According to the results of the autopsies carried out on Wednesday, the 35-year-old mother and her 10- and 7-year-old daughters “were victims of around ten stab wounds each”, “administered with very great violence”, specified the prosecutor of Meaux, Jean-Baptiste Bladier. The boys aged 4 years and 9 months “died of asphyxia following drowning”, he added. The modus operandi was confirmed by the respondent during the hearings.
He also declared that he had “not been able to identify a trigger for his act,” the prosecutor wrote. “He clarified that, since the incident, he ‘felt nothing’ and ‘felt empty’.”
Follow-up for psychotic and depressive disorders
The question of psychiatric follow-up quickly arose for this man who was receiving treatment to treat psychotic and depressive disorders. According to Jean-Baptiste Bladier, 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 the bodies around 9 p.m. on Christmas Eve in different rooms of the family home, located in a residence in Meaux, a “very violent crime scene”, according to the prosecution. The authorities had been alerted by neighbors worried about the lack of news from the mother.
The prosecutor requested the indictment and provisional detention of the father as part of the investigation opened for “intentional homicide of minors under 15” and “intentional homicide by spouse”. The decisions of the investigating judge and the liberty and detention judge will be known at the end of the day or in the evening.