Moroccan Man on Trial for Wife’s 2015 Murder in Paris Suburb

Now 37 years old, the man described as jealous and possessive by the investigators quoted by the newspaper Le Parisien, had admitted to having killed his wife, Hafida, after an argument that went wrong. "She annoyed me. So I hit her, and I killed her. I strangled her. That’s it," he had explained, before going back on his words and claiming that it was an accident, "that his wife had tried to strangle him, that he had defended himself by strangling her in turn and that he did not want to kill her".

Brahim went much further in his confession by admitting to having wrapped the body, kept it in the trunk for a few days before throwing it into the canal. This body, precisely, will be found by a passer-by a few weeks later. He had brought it closer to the bank before discovering "black garbage bags wrapped in duct tape, hinting at the shape of a human foot". DNA analysis will confirm a little later the identity of the Moroccan woman.

According to the same source, all the testimonies speak of a violent, authoritarian and very jealous man. His wife had filed a complaint against him in Morocco and had even started divorce proceedings, before giving up, the husband having "gone crazy".