France arrests man over murder of wife
and four children
Meaux (France) (AFP) – French police on Tuesday arrested a 33-year-old man with a history of psychiatric illness on suspicion of murdering his wife and their four children, a prosecutor said.
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People tied flowers to the railing outside the family's flat on Tuesday© ALAIN JOCARD / AFP
The bodies were discovered on Christmas Day, the latest in a series of shocking cases around Paris in recent months where men have allegedly murdered their families.
Authorities found the bodies of the 35-year-old woman and her children -- aged nine months, four, seven and 10 years old -- at home in the town of Meaux east of Paris on Monday evening, after worried friends and family sounded the alarm, local prosecutor Jean-Baptiste Bladier said.
The French man, a plumber, has been receiving treatment since 2017 for depression and psychotic behaviour, the prosecutor said.
Does "The French Man" mean that he is not a Muslim? No, it means that he is a French citizen. France24, along with almost every other news source in the world provide no clues as to the origin or religion of this man, as if it didn't matter.
Noé Bafania
Is he Muslim?
He was already held in 2019 after stabbing his partner in the shoulder blade when she was pregnant with their third child and trying to kill himself. She had refused to press charges, the prosecutor said.
He was treated again after that attack, and said he did not mean to harm her. The case was dropped as he was deemed to be "mentally deficient".
Was he a Muslim? So many acts of violence by Muslims are forgiven by French courts. It's bizarre, and as is obvious from this case, just plain wrong. The courts have bloody hands here.
The couple, who had met in high school, married in October.
'Very violent'
Police broke in through a bedroom window of their ground-floor flat to find a "very violent crime scene" covered in blood, the prosecutor said.
A police source said the mother was lying in the corridor, while the children were found dead in their rooms, in the kitchen and bathroom.
"The mother and the two girls had received a very high number of knife wounds," the prosecutor said.
The two younger boys had no stab wounds and may have been suffocated.
Was he a Muslim? As I have mentioned many times, Muslims seem to have a certain hatred for women and girls. Could that be why he murdered his wife and daughters so brutally but was more gentle with his sons?
Neighbours told police they had heard cries downstairs during the night of December 24 to 25.
The suspect, who was arrested near his father's home in the neighbouring town of Sevran on Tuesday morning, had not yet been questioned but told police he "knew why he had been detained", and "spoke of his unhappiness and depression", Bladier said.
All devout Muslims suffer from mental illness, and yet, French courts use this as an excuse to avoid punishing them when it should be an excuse for segregating them from sane society.
He had wounds to his hand.
An inquiry has been opened into the murder of minors under 15 years old, and murder by a partner. Autopsies were to be carried out in Paris on Wednesday.
People tied flowers to the railing outside the family's flat on Christmas Day.
The local community is in shock.
"His wife was kind, she spoke to everybody," said one local called Antonio, 69, who did not give his surname.
Femicides
The Paris region has recently seen a series of infanticides.
In late November, a 41-year-old man confessed to killing his three daughters, aged four to 11. Police found them dead in his home in the town of Alfortville, in the southeastern suburbs of the capital.
Like the latest story, France24, along with almost every other news source in the world provide no clues as to the origin or religion of this man. One news source named him, however, as 'Younes E'. Younes seems to be an Algerian name, and therefore a Muslim.
A month earlier a gendarme killed his three daughters before killing himself at his home in Vemars, northeast of the capital.
I am unable to find any identification of the nationality or religion of the late gendarme. Media and governments work very hard to keep such things a secret. Were there ever so many family massacres in France in the 20th century?
On average, a woman is killed every three days in France. Some 118 women were killed by their partner or ex-partner in France last year.
What are the numbers for children massacred? What were the numbers in the 20th century? What are news reporters doing these days anyway?
Police registered 244,300 victims of domestic violence, mostly women, in 2022 -- a 15-per cent increase -- in what rights groups believe is a sign that law enforcement is taking the problem more seriously.
That means that rights groups don't think the problem is getting worse, but that it is getting reported and actioned by police more. That seems like a euphoric attitude to me.
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