The husband of a young woman found dead in Saint-Raphaël (Var) on December 24 was arrested on Saturday in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis), after two weeks on the run, the indictment said on Sunday. , stating that the man was injured during this operation.
The man, a 39-year-old Tunisian, had left the Var with the couple’s three children a few days before the lifeless body of his 31-year-old wife, also of Tunisian nationality, was found in their apartment in Saint-Raphaël. The autopsy had put the date of his death at December 20 or 21.
Traces of strangulation and hematomas
An examination of the young woman’s body had “revealed possible traces of strangulation and bruising on her face,” explained Draguignan’s public prosecutor, Patrice Camberou.
Confirming a first information from the information site Act 17the magistrate told AFP that the arrest of her husband was carried out around 7 pm on Saturday, in an apartment in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine, by the brigade of research and intervention (BRI) of Seine-Saint-Denis.
Firefight with the police
“He saluted them at gunpoint” and the BIS fired a first shot, Bobigny’s accusation detailed to AFP. “He continued to threaten them shouting ‘Allah akbar’ and there was another shooting from the BRI”, continued this source, specifying that the man was “shot in the hand and in the jugular”.
Two other people, also arrested, were present in the apartment at the time with her husband. A fourth arrest took place outside the apartment.
No trace of the three children
After the discovery of the body, an investigation into manslaughter had been opened, entrusted to the judicial police of Toulon. Since then a judicial inquiry has been opened, with referral to an investigating judge.
For the moment, no trace has been found by the investigators of the couple’s three children. The family was trying to regularize their situation in France.
