PostedJune 29, 2022, 4:17 PM
The 50-year-old man, of Indian nationality, is suspected of having slaughtered his 7-year-old daughter and killed his 11-year-old son on May 11, near Frankfurt, French police announced.
French police announced on Wednesday that they had arrested a father suspected of having killed his two children last May in Hanau, Germany. The drama would have occurred in a context of separation of the couple.
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A man wanted for a double infanticide, committed on May 11 in Hanau, near Frankfurt, in Germany, was arrested in the Paris region, shortly after the facts, by the French police. Born in 1972 and of Indian nationality, the man was arrested on May 14 “without difficulty” in a Sikh temple located in Bobigny, where he had found refuge, explained Guillaume Lacassin, head of the National Fugitive Search Brigade.
This father is suspected of being responsible for the death, on May 11, of his 7-year-old daughter, whose throat was cut in the family apartment located on the ninth floor of a building in Hanau, in the suburbs of Frankfurt, and of that of his 11-year-old son, found lifeless at the foot of the building. The drama took place in a “context of separation of the couple”. The mother was absent at the time.
A premeditated crime
The man then fled. His escape seems to have been “prepared”, since he had made “a large withdrawal of nearly 3000 euros on the morning of the facts”, underlined Commissioner Lacassin. He then took a train to Aix-la-Chapelle, spent a night in a Sikh temple in Belgium, before being located in the Bobigny temple.
According to the first elements of the investigation, “he had no ties in France”, explained Guillaume Lacassin, who underlined the “good coordination” between the police and judicial authorities, Belgian, German and French, which led to this arrest. Incarcerated in Fresnes (Paris region) since his arrest, he must be handed over to the German authorities in the coming days.
(AFP)