The 29-year-old man had been placed in custody in October 2019 for violence on his companion of the time, according to a police source.
Le Monde with AFP
A police officer, known for domestic violence, is actively sought, Saturday, January 29, as part of a homicide investigation. The lifeless body of his companion was found Friday night in Paris in his apartment and has not reappeared for more than twenty-four hours.
It’s his colleagues on Blanc-Mesnil (Seine-Saint-Denis), worried not to have his news as he was supposed to take his post on Friday in the early afternoon, who gave the alert. “He had made contact with his service to say that he would not come. But, then he did not answer calls anymore”, according to a source close to the file.
Informed, the police of 19 e arrondissement, where he resides, went into the evening at his home. The 29-year-old peacekeeper, entered the police in 2012, was absent. On the other hand, the police found in the bathroom the body of his companion, aged 28.
The circumstances of the death of his companion are not known, an autopsy must be practiced in the afternoon, according to a judicial source, which specifies that an investigation was opened for “voluntary homicide on concubin “. She was entrusted to the second judicial police district.
According to another source close to the survey, the suspect owns a white city car, which it is likely to have used to flee, and it is possibly equipped with its service weapon.
Guarding in October 2019 for violence
The sought man had been placed in custody in October 2019 for violence on his companion of the time, according to a police source. He had then been the subject of a convocation for an awareness internship with domestic violence “.
Administratively, it had been punished with a warning, according to the same source. The warning is a disciplinary sanction among the lightest public service, no mention of which is carried out in the agent’s file.
It has also been the subject of “social follow-up”, provided by psychologists, social workers and prevention doctors. In June 2021, “he sought police intervention for a dispute with his companion who would have been violent with him. He presented a tumped face”, according to the police source.