29-year-old Ahmed K., who is suspected of having poured petrol on his wife and tried to set her on fire, was arrested in Lille on January the 5th and taken into police custody. The person is known to the police, it is said. […]
The incident started shortly before 1pm on Wednesday January the 5th: a woman living in Montpellier reports to the police that her 20-year-old niece, who lives in Lille, is being raped by her partner and is in grave danger. The woman explains that the niece in question is a Moroccan citizen and “does not speak French well”.
The police officers from Lille then go to the flat of the young woman, who is staying there alone. She explains that she had an argument with her partner in the morning and that he had poured petrol on her and then tried to set her on fire with a lighter. He had given up at the last moment because he was stopped by the cries of her seven-month-old baby, which the victim had been holding in her arms.