A man with a history of psychiatric illness stabbed his partner and her two young children to death in Mormant, a peaceful little town in Seine-et-Marne, then injured two people in the street before being arrested on Saturday.
The man was arrested around 6:30 a.m. by a police officer on his way to work, while he was attacking people with a knife in the streets of this town of 5,000 inhabitants, located 60 kilometers southeast of Paris, according to the Melun public prosecutor.
A pedestrian was injured in the arm and another in the neck, “both without significant consequences,” prosecutor Jean-Michel Bourlès told AFP.
The man then confessed to the police officer that he had killed his wife and two children, we learned from the prosecutor and sources close to the case.
At his home, the police discovered the three victims, his partner and their two children aged 22 months and five years, stabbed to death. The ages of the man and his partner have not been released.
Asked by AFP, the town’s mayor Pierre-Yves Nicot indicated that one of the two children killed was a little girl who had just started the final year of primary school at the Mormant nursery school.
The suspect is hospitalized
The suspect has no criminal record but a “psychiatric history,” added Mr. Bourlès. He is currently hospitalized to check whether his condition is compatible with police custody.
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