The father of Achille and César, two brothers aged 4 and 7 discovered dead in a car which he is suspected of having set fire to, in mid-March in Vaudricourt (Pas-de-Calais), has been indicted for assassination, announced Thursday, May 5 the parquet floor of Béthune.
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Monday morning, March 14, the bodies of the two children were found in the back of their father's burning vehicle.
The man, who had custody of his sons for the weekend and had to take them to school, was discovered near the vehicle, seriously burned.
He then explained "
having set fire to the vehicle, getting into it before changing his mind and leaving the burning vehicle alone
", indicated the day of the events the public prosecutor Thierry Dran.
“
Suspected of being the author of the fire, he was hospitalized
”, but on May 3, the improvement in his state of health allowed him to be placed in police custody, writes the prosecution in a press release released on Thursday.
At the end of his police custody, he was indicted on the charge of "
murders of minors aged fifteen by ascendant
" and placed in pre-trial detention.
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Separated from him for more than a year, the mother of the two boys, a psychiatric nurse, explained to AFP during a white march at the end of March that she had requested sole custody of the children.
But his ex-companion had obtained in summary custody rights for the weekend.
A hearing of the family court judge was to take place in June.