The wife of the professor stabbed to death at his home near Dunkirk on the night of Sunday to Monday confessed to killing him, during his custody began Wednesday, according to a source close to the case and a police union source.
Municipal councillor of Dunkirk, elected in 2020 on the list of Mayor Patrice Vergriete, now Minister in charge of Housing, and teacher, like the deceased, at the University of the Littoral Côte d'Opale, this thirty-year-old had first alerted the police by claiming that her husband had been the victim of burglars.