The husband of Assia, the woman discovered cut in the Parisian park of Buttes-Chaumont on February 13, admitted to being at the origin of her death, indicates Le Parisien this Friday, February 24.
[Mis à jour le 24 février 2023 à 17h21] After being taken into custody on Thursday February 23, Assia’s husband finally confessed to being behind the murder of his wife on Friday February 24, according to information from the Parisian. On February 13, Assia, 46, was found cut into several pieces in the Buttes-Chaumont park, located in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. Still according to information from ParisianYoucef, Assia’s husband, explained his gesture to the investigators by “resentments that had existed within the couple for several years”.
The Ile-de-France daily indicates that the man must be referred on Friday evening, and that he will spend the night in detention before being presented to an investigating judge at the Paris court on Saturday morning. He should then be put on trial. THE Parisian specifies however that the Paris prosecutor’s office, contacted by the daily, did not wish to communicate on this information for the moment.
As a reminder, an investigation had been entrusted to the criminal brigade of the judicial police after the discovery of a human trunk in a remote corner of the park of the 19th arrondissement of Paris on Monday February 13. Other parts of the victim’s body were then found the next day in the park by investigators. An autopsy was performed, and according to the results of forensic examinations, Assia died of asphyxiation. The suspicions of the investigators quickly fell on Assia’s husband, in particular because he had reported his wife’s absence a week after her disappearance. Find below the latest information on this sordid case.
A body found in several pieces in the Buttes-Chaumont park
It is a macabre discovery which was made in the heart of the Buttes-Chaumont park, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, and which the maintenance workers did not expect. Monday, February 13, around 2:30 p.m., park pruners found, in a very remote grove, a garbage bag which contained a human trunk which went “from above the chest to the knees” according to a source from Parisian. The fatal find more precisely took place in a corner located out of sight, near the green waste warehouse reserved for gardeners, south of the park, on the rue Botzaris side. The human remains were bloody and, significantly, they were dressed, “as if surrounded by jeans”. A detail that leads the investigators to believe that “the body was cut dressed” according to a source familiar with the matter contacted by the Ile-de-France daily.
A few hours after the discovery, a search was organized in the Parc des Buttes Chaumont with dog brigades to find other parts of the victim’s body. Discoveries that were made on Tuesday, February 14, around 11 a.m., near the disused railway line which adjoins the park, according to information from the Ile-de-France daily. The victim’s head and the rest of the body were discovered. She was later identified (see below) through the analysis of fingerprints taken from her corpse, according to information from franceinfo.
Who is the victim ?
After several hours of blurring, the victim was identified on Wednesday February 15. This is Assia B., a 46-year-old woman of Algerian origin and mother of three children, according to information from BFM TV. She had no job and lived with her husband, also unemployed, in a building in Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis), according to a source close to the investigation contacted by franceinfowhich also indicates that the couple was not known to the police.
Heard Tuesday by the investigators, the husband of Assia B. indicated that she had gone out on the night of January 30 to 31, according to information from BFM TV. Interviewed by RTL on Wednesday, February 15, he indicated that she had then left the family home to take public transport. The husband then explained on the radio that he had not asked her specifically where she intended to go, but that she used to go to street markets in order to buy clothes which she then resold to individuals. . BFM TV indicated this Friday that, according to the first results of the medico-legal examinations which still have to be confirmed, Assia B. would have died of asphyxiation.
Who is the suspect?
If no suspect has yet been officially put forward by the investigators of the Criminal Brigade, the latter are wondering about the role of the husband of Assia B. after hearing him last Tuesday. Indeed, he told investigators that she had left the family home on the night of January 30 to 31, according to information from BFM TV. In an interview at RTL, he said he realized her disappearance on the evening of the 31st, noting that she was not returning to the family home. A search notice was then posted on social networks, and the whole family started looking for him, again according to the husband’s statements on the radio.
However, it was not until February 6 that the husband finally went to a police station to report his disappearance. An investigation for disappearance was then opened, as reported franceinfo, but she had not allowed any progress until the macabre discovery of several parts of her body in the Buttes-Chaumont park. Why did her husband wait so long to report her missing to the police? This is one of the questions that investigators are now asking, as reported BFM TV. The chain also indicates that the husband explained that he took so long because he was “overwhelmed by events”.
In addition, no CCTV camera shows that she left the building where the family apartment is located on the night of January 30 to 31, as he told investigators, the news channel said. The family home had also been searched after the body was identified as that of Assia B. During this search, the investigators did not find a new mobile phone that he had bought on January 30, indicates BFM TV, which also specifies that the investigators determined that the husband had not gone to certain places in Paris to look for his companion, as he had initially claimed. Finally, BFM TV explains that Assia B.’s sister told investigators that she had called her on January 28, telling her that she thought she was going to die soon, without giving any further explanation.