Triple homicide in Amiens: the spouse of one of the main suspect victims

The victims of the triple homicide perpetrated in Amiens were two sisters aged 25 and 26 and the son of the eldest, aged three, and suspicions now "converge" towards his spouse, father of the child, announced this Saturday the prosecutor.

The bodies were discovered on Friday in an apartment in Amiens, which the older sister "shared with her spouse" and their child, said Alexandre de Bosschère, public prosecutor in Amiens, at a press conference.

The spouse was “hospitalized following a traffic accident” on Thursday, the circumstances of which “indicate that it was probably a voluntary collision, within the framework of a suicide attempt”, continued the prosecutor.

“His vital prognosis is no longer engaged but he will not be able to be heard for several days”.

This 48-year-old man "presented, moreover, at the time of his hospitalization, traces of serious lesions which seem to indicate that he had tried to commit suicide a few hours earlier by other means", he added. .

"Traces of asphyxiation" on the bodies of the victims

Given these elements and his "proven presence" in the apartment, "suspicions converge on him".

"The autopsy operations began on Saturday morning" and "the analyzes of the samples taken on this occasion will follow at the beginning of the week".

According to the first elements, the three victims "showed traces of asphyxiation" whose origin is not determined at this stage.

The two women also showed signs of blows, and the youngest bore “a trace of a stab wound, non-lethal, at the level of the neck”, specified the prosecutor.

Death is at this stage "not dated" precisely but it is "prior to several hours or days" at the time of discovery.

The emergency services intervened after the report of a relative who was worried about not having heard from “for a few days”.

Known to the police and justice services for acts of forgery, fraud or concealed work, the suspect "has never been convicted of acts of violence", further indicated Alexandre de Bosschère.

The prosecution did not "find any traces of complaints, ongoing investigations or reports to associations for acts of domestic violence".