He did not seek to dispute the obvious.
Khalid, 51, admitted to SDPJ 93 investigators to have stabbed his ex-wife, Bouchra, 44, to death at the foot of the building where she lived in Épinay-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis).
Immediately after the fact, Friday evening, he went to the city police station on his own.
This Sunday evening, after 48 hours in police custody, he was to be referred to the Bobigny court and presented to a judge of freedoms and detention.
The prosecution which opens a judicial investigation for murder by ex-spouse asks that he be imprisoned pending his first appearance interview scheduled for Monday morning before an investigating judge who will indict him.
The victim still thought so in detention
Khalid had already been sentenced on July 27 for violence without total incapacity for work in Bouchra, but also for death threats and a home invasion.
This procedure had made it possible to highlight the verbal and psychological violence suffered by this forty-something since the beginning of 2019.
Khalid had received a 1 year prison sentence including 6 months suspended probation and Bouchra had been equipped with the serious danger telephone, a device allowing victims of domestic violence to quickly alert the police in case of concern. .
Released on October 1, Khalid had violated his ban on contact with Bouchra on October 5.
First outbreak of this serious danger phone.
On October 8, Khalid was imprisoned and on October 19, the sentence enforcement judge in Evry-Courcouronnes (Essonne) where Khalid had settled, revoked two out of the six months of the probationary stay.
He was theoretically due out on December 7, but with the reductions in his sentence, the 50-year-old was released earlier, on November 17, without Bouchra being notified.
Thinking he was in detention on Friday, she had not taken the phone with her in serious danger ... Bouchra was the mother of two daughters, aged 5 and 14.