The lifeless bodies of a five-year-old girl and her hanged father were found on Sunday evening at their home in Agny (Pas-de-Calais), police sources said on Monday, favoring the theory of a infanticide followed by suicide.
The 42-year-old man was discovered Sunday evening hanging in the hallway of the home, a police Source said. The little girl was found dead on a bed in a room.
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Worried that his youngest daughter had not been brought back as usual, the father’s ex-partner alerted his eldest daughter, who went to the home in the evening, according to this Source.
According to the first elements of the investigation, the man was not known to the police, reported another police Source.
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An investigation into the homicide of a 15-year-old minor has been opened, the Arras prosecutor’s office announced in a press release.
The investigation is moving “towards a homicide committed within the family unit followed by the suicide of the main suspect”, specified the prosecution, adding that the investigations were continuing “without excluding any hypothesis”.
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