A new family tragedy shakes up the French. Twenty-eight days after a police officer killed his three daughters, another man also took the lives of his three girls.

The minors were aged 11, 10 and 5 and the bodies were found on Sunday, November 26, in a house in Alfortville, on the outskirts of Paris, the EFE agency and Le Parisien reported.

The shocking and macabre discovery was made by authorities, alerted by the father himself. The man went to a police station in Dieppe leaving everyone stunned and confessed to the triple crime.

According to Telecinco, the victims were stabbed to death. The perpetrator, the press emphasized, “had already been convicted of domestic violence in 2021.”

However, inside Le Parisian They reported that at least two people had been killed with a knife. The third was allegedly strangled.

The dramatic events took place in a house near the Jean-Baptiste-Clément quay, on the banks of the Seine River, where El Caso reported: “the image that the officers found left them in shock.”

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Crime of three children in Paris

The confessed killer is 41 years old. EFE confirmed “that he was convicted in 2021 of spousal violence and violence against minors.”

Like Younes, born in Morocco, they identified in La Vanguardia the progenitor and cause of this accident.

In Le Parisien they reproduced statements by the prosecutor of Créteil, Stéphane Hardouin, about the scene of the painful crime.

“The first visual observations, in particular the remains of a meal, the position of the victims and their clothing, led us to believe that the events took place during the night from Saturday to Sunday, possibly while they were sleeping,” he said.

The girls were wearing their pajamas and authorities said Monday that “they did not observe any injuries of a sexual nature.”

When firefighters found the elderly woman, they thought they could revive her as she had no stab wounds. The marks on his neck suggest he died of strangulation, Le Parisien reported.

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According to media channel Bfmtv, the father allegedly gave his girls sleeping pills.

On November 25, “the man went to pick up his daughters in Marolles-en-Brie around 3 p.m. That night she exchanged confrontational emails with her mother and decided to kill her daughters on the spot, the hearings heard.

He thought about suicide

A neighbor, saddened by this tragedy, said according to La Vanguardia: “I saw the girls again last week, one afternoon, when I came back from work. “I can’t believe they’re dead.”

The sisters lived with their mother, about 20 km from where this tragedy occurred.

Those Spanish media quoted that the confessed killer was apparently “trying to return to the mother of his daughters.”

After killing his three daughters, Bfmtv added, “the father took his car to go to the Bures-sur-Yvette viaduct, where he considered committing suicide. Finally he returned home, packed his things and went to Dieppe to confess the facts at the police station.”

The Moroccan was “sentenced to 18 months in prison in 2021 for spousal violence and another crime against a minor under 15 years old. In addition, a restraining order had been imposed on his partner and his daughters.” These measures were lifted in August 2023, El Caso reported.

The same media indicated that the victims’ mother was followed on Sunday, the day of the triple murder. By not locating her they also feared the worst. (JO)