UpdateThe wife of the French teacher who was stabbed to death “by burglars” on Monday in his home in Dunkirk, near the Belgian border, has been taken into custody. The public prosecutor’s office let us know. 51-year-old Patrice Charlemagne received multiple stab wounds in his chest and abdomen. He died on the spot from his injuries.
The facts took place on Monday morning between 4 and 5 o’clock in the couple’s home in the municipality of Rosendael. Charlemagne’s 37-year-old wife called the emergency services in a panic. On the phone she said she was woken up by noise. She claimed that there had been a burglary and that she had been able to flee with the couple’s one-and-a-half-year-old child. Her husband Patrice was still in the house, she said.
When the police and emergency services arrived on the scene, they could do little more than confirm Patrice’s death. The man in his fifties, who worked as a lecturer at the University of Dunkirk, suffered cardiac arrest as a result of the stab wounds and could no longer be resuscitated.
Two knives and gloves
“After examining the testimonies, statements and technical and scientific findings, the Dunkirk public prosecutor’s office decided today to take the victim’s wife into custody,” prosecutor Charlotte Huet said in a statement. Huet emphasizes that “everyone taken into custody is considered innocent.”
According to the French news channel BFM TV, two knives, gloves, a flashlight and a laptop were found near the house. These things could indicate that it was indeed an armed burglary. But another avenue cannot be ruled out for the time being, it sounds.
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