The bodies of two women and a “young child” were discovered on Friday in an apartment in Amiens, and a homicide investigation was opened, AFP learned from the Amiens prosecutor’s office.
“A criminal investigation is open” on this “triple homicide” committed on a date not yet determined, and the judicial police are seized, told AFP the prosecutor, Alexandre de Bosschère.
Autopsies will be carried out on Saturday on the body of the child and one of the female victims, the causes of death not yet being established, added the prosecutor.
“Two knives possibly bearing traces of blood were discovered. Other traces of blood near one of the bodies were visible,” the prosecution said in a statement.
“A public prosecutor, the judicial police, the judicial identity (technical and scientific police) and a forensic doctor” had been dispatched to the scene at midday and the sector cordoned off.
The victims were discovered at the end of the morning by the firefighters, warned by a relative who was worried about not having an answer to his calls, according to the firefighters.
The emergency services had to enter the apartment, located on the first floor of a building in a peripheral and popular area of Amiens, through a window. It was, according to the prosecution, the home of one of the victims, born in 1993.
The companion, born in 1973, of this woman was the victim Thursday of a road accident, a collision with a heavy weight, and is hospitalized in Amiens, specified the prosecutor. His state of health was described as “serious” by the prosecution and “he cannot be heard for the moment”.
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