The father of Achille and César, two brothers aged 4 and 7 discovered dead in a car he is suspected of having burned down in mid-March in Vaudricourt (Pas-de-Calais), committed suicide in prison, a we learned this Wednesday from a source close to the case and from family members of the victims.
"We found out this morning," said one of these relatives, confirming information from La Voix du Nord.
“Now we will think of us, we will no longer think of him.
We will think of the little ones, always in our heads.
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.
A dispute over child custody
He then explained "having set fire to the vehicle, getting into it before changing his mind and leaving the vehicle in flames alone", indicated on the day of the events the public prosecutor of Béthune Thierry Dran.
The man had been hospitalized, and on May 3, the improvement in his state of health had allowed his placement in police custody.
At the end of his police custody, he had been indicted on the count of "murders of minors aged fifteen by ascendant" and placed in pre-trial detention.
Separated from him for more than a year, the mother of the two boys, a psychiatric nurse, explained 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.