Overview
- Emergency services were called around 10 p.m. on February 6 to an apartment on rue de Belleville in Paris’s 20th arrondissement, where a 57-year-old man with multiple stab wounds could not be revived.
- The victim had been staying at his sister’s home, and her account of hearing their other brother’s voice directed investigators to the suspect.
- Prosecutors opened a flagrant investigation for voluntary homicide and assigned the case to the 2nd judicial police district.
- Investigators arrested the suspect at his residence; prosecutors said he had seriously harmed himself before the arrest and is now under hospital care.
- An autopsy was conducted on Saturday to confirm the cause of death, the knife was not found at the scene, and the motive remains unknown.