A woman in her thirties was killed on Monday, May 24 in the morning of several blows of a hammer to the head carried by a man following an argument which arose in an apartment in Arpajon (Essonne), learned the 'AFP police source.
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The Evry prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into the counts of “
murder
” and “
attempted murder
”, another woman present at the time of the tragedy having also been injured with a hammer, said the public prosecutor requested by AFP.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the two women would have come "to
spend the weekend
" with this man, aged 39, who had been living alone for two months in this apartment, explained the police source.
Around 5 a.m., the victim, an Eritrean, allegedly asked her compatriot, alcoholic, to make less noise.
Furious, the man attacked her and then the second woman who tried to intervene.
The victim is the mother of two children
The victim's children, a 2.5-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy, were sleeping in another room but the screams woke the boy who "
witnessed the scene,
" said the police source.
These children, whose father lives in a hotel in Paris, are the subject of a provisional placement order and the perpetrator of the beatings is currently in a sobering-up cell, said the same source.
The circumstances of the tragedy remain unclear, the links between the author of the hammer blows and the victim have not yet been established.
"
We do not know if it is a member of the family or if they had an emotional relationship
" or if it was an acquaintance, explained the parquet floor of Evry.
