Monday June 24, Michaël Oleffe committed suicide at the Saint Denis Bovesse station in Namur, Belgium. The desperate act of the 47-year-old man would hide the murder of his partner Françoise Dessy, found dead at their home in Namur.
“He was a nice guy, we don’t understand what happened », comment the relatives of Michaël Oleffe and Françoise Dessy, while the forty-year-old threw himself under a train on June 24. Shortly after midnight, the body of the father of the family was found at the Saint Denis Bovesse station in Namur (Belgium). But this is not the only corpse that comes to mourn the blended family… The body of Françoise Dessy, his partner, is found by his children the next day. “My sister came to wake me up. She discovered my mother who was lying down. We saw that she had bruises on her arm. She also had a purple face. I directly called the emergency services and the police”says Romain, 18 years old.
According to initial findings, Françoise Dessy died of suffocation. If Michaël Oleffe becomes the first suspect, their children and their loved ones describe a very loving and uneventful couple. “Françoise was gentle, discreet, smiling” or ” He was a nice guy, we don’t understand what happened”. Furthermore, Romain affirms that his stepfather was not violent: “There was only one time he pushed her against the wall. Otherwise, I have never seen any acts of violence. And this is a couple who didn’t drink. He had a drink from time to time. That’s all “.
“It’s my decision and you couldn’t have changed it.”
Despite a comfortable lifestyle and a loving family that he liked to post on social networks, Michaël Oleffe was not in the best shape. In particular, he sent a letter to his mother to apologize for his desperate act which he organized on her birthday. I’ve gone crazy and you must be very disappointed in me. « This week, I understood that life could change without warning and find you in a state miles away from what you usually are” he writes. In particular, he expresses his feeling of doing everything « like a robot ». « It’s my decision and you couldn’t change it “, he concluded with a final apology.
The Namur public prosecutor’s office opened a murder investigation which was quickly entrusted to the investigation « The investigation is underway to confirm the exact circumstances of the facts”, reports the spokesperson for the Namur public prosecutor’s office. The body of Françoise Dessy must be autopsied this week.
