Dismembered woman found in Buttes-Chaumont: victim's husband confesses

Of her, we especially know the end

Dismembered woman found in Buttes-Chaumont: victim's husband confesses

Of her, we especially know the end. His body, found fragmented and scattered in a Parisian park. Her name was Assia. She was 46 years old, with almost jet black eyes and three children aged 8, 14 and 17.

How did she live and how did she die? The investigation, and now the judicial investigation opened since February 17 for assassination, attack on the integrity of a corpse and concealment of a corpse, endeavors to discover it a little more each day. Ten days after the horror of the discovery of her corpse, her husband, Youcef M., confessed, during his police custody which began on the morning of Thursday, February 23, to having killed her, a source close to Le Monde reported. the investigation, confirming information from the Parisian. He must be presented to an examining magistrate between Friday evening and Saturday morning, with a view to an indictment.

On Monday, February 13, a green space agent who worked at Buttes-Chaumont, a busy park in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, approached a pile of leaves and branches from which a plastic bag was sticking out. Inside: a part of a female body, severed from below the chest to above the knees. The park is immediately closed to make way for the methodical excavation of its 25 hectares. The next day, the investigators end up discovering garbage bags containing other human remains, at the level of the disused railway tracks of the small belt. The analyzes will confirm that it is the same victim, and his fingerprints will eventually give him his name: Assia B. marries M..

" Very worried "

She lived in Montreuil, in Seine-Saint-Denis, in a small building near the city center and the terminus of metro line 9. Her husband had been posting on social media for several days, calling to find her and praying for her return. On Facebook, he explained that he had "no news from her" since Tuesday, January 31. Assia is said to have "gone out in the morning" and nothing since. Between some photos of the three children and her smiling, he said that his wife was going "to sell out" in Paris, Pantin and towards the Porte de la Villette, and that he was "very worried", like his family "in France or Algeria".

On a post marked with a red banner "disturbing disappearance", he added that she was wearing "a black coat with fur" and "a black beanie with rhinestones". He would not declare her missing at the police station until almost a week later, on February 6, leading to the opening of an investigation which would yield nothing until the body was found. On another call for witnesses relayed on social networks "at the request of his family", it was specified that Assia had left with his identity card, but without his bank card or transport card. According to the collective