The man in question is suspected of having killed his wife Meryeme on October 12, 2022 and of having disguised her death as suicide. The emergency services were alerted at the time by a neighbor of the couple, parents of five children, after he saw his neighbor hanging from the balcony of the 4th floor overlooking the block of a building located on rue de Mérode in Saint-Gilles.
Defended by Me Carine Couquelet and Me Samira Bouyid, the victim’s husband has been in preventive detention for a year and a half.He took the polygraph test (the “lie detector”, editor’s note) which came back positive for him. He was able to reunite with his children“, comments Me Couquelet.
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The husband, who was very agitated during the intervention of the firefighters and the police, had been immediately deprived of his liberty. Following the initial findings made on site, the medical examiner had noted elements that could support the theory of murder rather than suicide. Meryeme, 60, was known to the neighborhood as a pious housewife who had made her pilgrimage to Mecca, and her suicide had raised many questions. The traces of blood discovered at the foot of the building and the injuries of the sixty-year-old ended up casting doubt on the circumstances of her death.
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According to our sources, the forensic expertise that followed concluded on the theory of voluntary strangulation by a third party. A counter-expertise carried out at the request of the defense, for its part, favored that of suicide, it is reported to us. According to our information, a panel of experts was appointed during the judicial investigation and the latter’s report would be closer to the conclusions of the first forensic doctor.A battle of experts in perspective“, we are told.
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The question of motive arises. From sources close to the investigation, we have learned that the authorities had heard of a second marriage being prepared in Morocco. A rogatory commission was apparently issued in the Cherifian kingdom in order to discover whether this project really existed. The investigators reportedly returned empty-handed from these investigations.
Finally, a source also tells us about the hearing of one of the couple’s children in which he mentioned a previous attempt at throwing himself out of a window a few days before the traumatic discovery.
The investigation is continuing to determine the exact circumstances that led to Meryeme’s death on October 12, 2022.
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