Double homicide in the Gard: the suspect indicted and remanded in custody

The 39-year-old man suspected of having killed his partner and his sister-in-law with several stab wounds on Friday May 5, in Salles-du-Gardon (Gard), was indicted for acts of "murder on

“, of “

” and “

” and placed in pre-trial detention, learned

from the Nîmes prosecutor’s office.

The defendant, aged 39 and of Moroccan nationality, had spontaneously presented himself to the police station in Alès on Friday afternoon, explaining to the police that he had killed his companion and her sister.

The man was accompanied by his 10-month-old granddaughter and a witness to the facts, summoned by the respondent to drive him to the police station.

The police then placed him in police custody and went to his presumed home, an apartment in the town of Salles-du-Gardon, in which they could only note the death of the companion and the sister-in-law of the respondent.

Respectively aged 26 and 39, the victims showed "

" according to the public prosecutor of Nîmes, Cécile Gensac.

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"Strong resentment" against his sister-in-law

After investigations, the police discovered that the respondent and his partner, married since December 2020, had in fact been separated for several months.

The companion of the mis en cause, who had filed a handrail with the police station in Alès in December 2022, probably feared that he would take their child to Morocco.

She had settled in Salles-du-Gardon a few days before her death, the respondent coming “

” to visit her.

Friday, May 5, the day of the events, an argument would have broken out in the afternoon between the respondent and his sister-in-law.

According to the witness of the facts, the respondent blamed his partner's sister for "

", holding her responsible for "

".

The man then stabbed him several times.

Alerted, the suspect's companion quickly arrived on the scene;

she then received several stab wounds to the throat.

The witness of the facts was a beautician in intervention at the home of the companion of the mis en cause.

During his police custody, the respondent indicated that he harbored “

”.

To the witness of the facts who led him to the Alès police station, he declared "

", his in-laws "

.

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In an irregular situation on the national territory

According to the Nîmes public prosecutor's office, the defendant is only known to the courts for a conviction for "

" dating from October 2022. In an irregular situation on national territory, he has also already made the subject to two obligations to leave the national territory in 2019 and May 2022 by the prefectures of Drôme and Vaucluse.

Indicted for "

", "

" and "

" to the detriment of the witness present at the time of the events, he was placed in pre-trial detention.

Her 10-month-old granddaughter, who did not suffer any violence but witnessed the scene, was the subject of a judicial placement at the university hospital center of Nîmes within the framework of the departmental protocol for the care of minors victims of violence and intra-family murders, said the prosecutor of Nîmes.