Assia’s husband, found cut up in the Buttes-Chaumont park in Paris, must be presented to an examining magistrate on Saturday February 25. On Friday, he confessed to being the cause of his wife’s death.
[Mis à jour le 25 février 2023 à 09h06] More than ten days after the discovery of a dismembered woman’s body in the Buttes-Chaumont park, the victim’s husband confessed on Friday February 24, reports The Parisian. Youcef, the husband of the victim, named Assia and aged 46, explained his gesture by “resentments that had existed within the couple for several years”. The father of three children, who had been slow to report the disappearance of his wife, was in the crosshairs of the investigators. He must be presented to an examining magistrate, Saturday, February 25, with a view to a possible indictment, specifies the Huffington Post.
Youcef’s police custody, which began on Thursday February 23, was extended on Friday as part of an open judicial investigation for “murder, attack on the integrity of a corpse and concealment of a corpse”. The mother of the family, Assia, had been missing since January 31, but her husband had reported her missing only on February 6. This initial inconsistency aroused the suspicions of investigators, as did the fact that Youcef bought a new phone on January 30, reports BFM-TV. The device was not found.
An investigation had been entrusted to the criminal brigade of the judicial police after the discovery of the human trunk on Monday, February 13. According to The Parisian, Assia rarely left her home and some of her relatives suspected domestic violence. The autopsy showed that the victim had died of asphyxiation, while his body was cut “surgically” from the chest to the knees, indicates the Ile-de-France newspaper.
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 containing a human trunk that went “from above the chest to the knees” according to a source from the Parisian. The fatal find took place more precisely 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 led 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 through the analysis of fingerprints taken from her corpse, according to information from franceinfo.
The victim was identified on Wednesday February 15. This is Assia, 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.
Youcef, Assia’s husband, finally confessed to being behind the murder of his wife this Friday, February 24, according to information from the Parisian, after being taken into custody the day before. The suspicions of the investigators quickly fell on Assia’s husband, after they heard him on February 14 during a free hearing. Indeed, several inconsistencies had appeared in their eyes, in particular by cross-checking his remarks made during this hearing with those made, on February 15, by Youcef during an interview on RTL.
During his hearing, Assia’s husband had indeed indicated that she had left the family home on the night of January 30 to 31, according to information from BFM TV. Interviewed by RTL, he had 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 exactly where she intended to go, but that she used to go to clearance sales to buy clothes which she then resold to individuals. . He told RTL that he realized her disappearance on the evening of the 31st, noting that she was not returning to the family home. However, the investigators then learned, during their hearings of people around the couple, that Assia rarely left her home, reports The Parisian.
But it is above all the time taken by Youcef to report the disappearance of his wife who put the flea in the ear of the investigators. Indeed, it was only on February 6 that the husband ended up going to a police station to report his disappearance, a week after noticing his wife’s absence. The husband had initially explained to the investigators that he had taken so much time because he was “overwhelmed by events”, as reported by BFMTV.
In addition, no CCTV cameras showed that she left the building where the family apartment was located on the night of January 30 to 31, as he had indicated to investigators, the channel said. ‘information. The Parisian further reports that the investigators were able to determine that Youcef had not gone to Paris in order to look for his wife, as he had claimed, nor had he made numerous phone calls to his wife. woman to try to find her.