Father Found Dead After Confrontation; Three Suspects Arrested in French Park Murder

Sad fate for this family man who, according to the testimonies of the neighbors, was a man without history. Sunday evening, his wife alerts the police of his disappearance, after having discovered traces of blood and her husband’s cell phone on the ground in front of their home. On Monday, the police arrest Yassine, a 23-year-old young man of Moroccan origin, after the neighbors called the police to report that the young man had returned at night claiming "to have killed someone."

According to several residents of the neighborhood, Yassine had had an altercation with Moustapha at the beginning of the month, about his teenage daughter, who had been harassed for several weeks by the young man. Would the death of the 44-year-old man be related to this incident? At the current stage of the investigation, it is difficult to confirm this thesis. Once arrested, Yassine quickly confessed to the murder and the place where he had left the lifeless body of his victim. It is the Sautour park, a 17-hectare green space at the entrance of the city, reports LeParisien.

Based on Yassine’s confessions, the investigators had searched the park and its surroundings all day Monday, looking for Moustapha’s body. But alas! It was a young man from the city who finally found the body at 12:15 a.m. It was buried on the edge of a path, hidden by bushes, on a hill. The investigators of Les Mureaux, reconsidering the facts, decided to establish the conditions in which the body was transferred to the park. The hypothesis of complicity is obvious to the investigators who consider that Yassine must have benefited from the help of certain people he is trying to protect. They were on the right track, since Yassine’s statements evolved, leading to the arrest of his girlfriend and her brother.

The three people were brought before the court and indicted, after the adversarial debates, for murder, in the case of Yassine, aged 23; for modification of the crime scene as regards his girlfriend; and for modification of the crime scene and concealment of a corpse as regards the brother of the latter. They were also placed in pre-trial detention.

Moustapha’s death has sparked a wave of solidarity around his loved ones. A kitty was launched on the Internet on Tuesday morning. By Wednesday evening, more than 25,000 € had been raised. A tribute is being prepared to honor the memory of the forty-year-old who had grown up in Les Mureaux, in the Vigne Blanche neighborhood. Until this Wednesday evening, the motive for the crime has not yet been established. The hearings are complicated due to the need to have an interpreter for Yassine, a Moroccan like the victim, indicates the same source.