Mother and four children found dead in Paris flat on Christmas Day
A murder investigation has been launched after the bodies of a mother and her four children were found in a blood-soaked Paris apartment on Christmas Day.
Their 33-year-old father has now been arrested, following reports that he was missing and wanted by police in connection with the deaths in a suburb 25 miles northeast of the French capital.
The mother and her four children – two girls aged seven and 10, a boy aged four, and a nine-month-old baby – were discovered at around 9pm in a flat in Meaux, where prosecutors described finding “a very violent crime scene” and no sign of a break-in.
The mother, 35, and her two eldest daughters suffered so many knife injuries it was not possible to say how many times they had been stabbed, while the two youngest infants may have died by drowning or suffocation, prosecutor Jean-Baptiste Bladier said.
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5 comments
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How sad. I hope the children had had a good day before they were murdered. 😢
so sad my heart goes out to them bless
3 guesses what culture they are from.
Don’t release him on bail or so Depression what excuse bladdy bast… 😡