The noose is tightening. A man, aged 41 and born in the Philippines, was indicted on Friday for murder and placed in pre-trial detention, suspected of having fatally stabbed a woman at her home in Paris last week, the prosecution said.
The suspect, the victim's cleaning man, was taken into custody on Wednesday morning, according to the same source. At the end of his police custody, he was presented to an investigating judge of the Paris judicial court and was indicted for murder, said the prosecution, adding that the man was placed in pre-trial detention .
The victim, aged 36 and mother of a three-year-old child, had “stab wounds” when she was found in an apartment in the 11th arrondissement of the capital on Friday March 22, the prosecutor's office said. time of the facts. Around noon on Boulevard Voltaire, Alexandra's husband returned home and discovered his wife unconscious at their home.
Ten wounds on the body
He first saw that the apartment door was open, but not broken. Then he found his wife's body lying, undressed, covered in blood, in the closet. He therefore immediately notified the emergency services.
Alexandra's body was stabbed with ten stab wounds all over her body. The firefighters arrived quickly and tried to give him cardiac massage to restart his heart which had stopped beating. In vain, the doctor officially declared her dead a few minutes later. Aged 39, the spouse was taken into police custody just after the discovery of the body, then released without prosecution over the weekend.
The investigations, entrusted to the criminal brigade of the Paris judicial police, “are now continuing under the direction of the investigating judge”, indicated the prosecution.