A DAD allegedly killed his wife and four children on Christmas Day before they were found lying in “pools of blood”, French officials have said.
Cops arrested Noé, 33, today after his wife and daughters were stabbed to death and their two youngest children appeared to have been suffocated or drowned.
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The family of five were found in the suburban town of Meaux, 25 miles from the French capital on Monday at around 9pm.
The youngest child was just nine months and the eldest was ten years old.
Mum Béatrice and her two eldest daughters, ten and seven, were found with “a very large number” of stab wounds all over their bodies, authorities said on Tuesday.
The two youngest children, a 4-year-old boy and a 9-month-old baby “did not have any visible wounds on their bodies”.
Local prosecutor Jean-Baptiste Bladier said in a press conference on Tuesday that the youngest children are thought to have died by “suffocation or possibly drowning”.
He described a “very violent crime scene” in the family home with “puddles and pools of blood”, according to local reports.
Cops confirmed on Tuesday the suspect is Noé and he is facing charges following the bloodbath.
The 33-year-old, from a Haitian background, has reportedly refused to speak to police since his arrest in the early hours of Boxing Day.
Bladier said: “The prime suspect is the father, aged thirty-three, who was found on Tuesday at a house nearby, after going on the run.”
Noé was already known to police in the area, according to local media reports.
Bladier told press on Tuesday that he had stabbed his partner in 2019.
He reportedly injured wife Béatrice in the shoulders, leaving her unable to work for at least five days.
She did not file a complaint but during a hearing at the time “mentioned a long-standing depressive state in her partner”.
The case was apparently dropped in January 2020 because of Noé’s poor mental health at the time.
Bladier added that cops discovered medical documents and prescriptions for anti-depressants in the flat.
And he said that while Noé had a history of “domestic violence”, he had retained a clean criminal record.
Their flat showed no signs of a break in and the dad was not there when the victims were found.
Early reports said he had fled following the murders, but cops tracked him on CCTV and arrested him on Tuesday morning in the nearby town of Sevran at his father’s home.
Geolocation data on his phone revealed that he left the family flat at around 8.07pm on Christmas Day.
He then went to nearby Sevran to see his father, and to his grandmother in Garges-lès-Gonesse.
Neither the suspect, nor any of the victims, have yet been named by the French authorities.
A police source on Tuesday morning said “The flat showed no sign of breaking and entering, and the father was absent.”
Neighbours told cops they heard screams on the early hours of Christmas Day and one called the police that evening.
The woman who alerted cops wanted to remain anonymous but told local media that she was close with Béatrice and had last spoken to her on Sunday around 7pm, which caused alarm bells.
Béatrice apparently told her neighbour that “she was waiting for the return of her husband”.
The neighbour explained: “We were worried because it’s not her habit not to give me news.
“We called each other every day, [she] called me every day at 6 or 7 a.m.”
“I said to myself: ‘It’s due to fatigue, it’s not serious, I’ll call in the morning.
“I call my girlfriend, I tell her: ‘Have you got any news, she tells me ‘no.’
“The shutters are down, it’s not normal, I called several times.”
The neighbour lived opposite and went to the family apartment to check on them on Christmas Day, when she saw “blood on the front door handle and in front of the door”.
“I had to call the police and they came. They said there is blood everywhere,” she said.
This neighbour described Béatrice as being “very jovial and very kind”, adding: “she was like a sister, always there for us, she lived for her family, her children and for her husband.
“Her children are friends with my children, they are in the same class in the same school.”
One local, Antonio, 69, said of Béatrice: “His wife was kind, she spoke to everybody”.
Another neighbour of the family, Andree, spoke to BFMTV about the horrific murders.
They described Béatrice as “so nice” and said “she talked to everyone”.
On Noé, they said he was a “man whom we saw passing by very calmly, we felt that he was not comfortable in his skin, he was always calm, very slow but there was never a problem.”
Prosecutor Bladier confirmed that a murder enquiry was opened after the five bodies were found lying in their family home.
Investigations into a “premeditated murder” are ongoing and autopsies will take place on Wednesday.
According to reports the family lived near the Square Adam-de-la-Halle in Seine-et-Marne, Meaux.
Local media said on Tuesday morning that the bodies of the family were still inside the flat.
At least a dozen police officers were reportedly on site both inside and around the building.
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