A murder investigation is underway in Mulhouse after the body of a 19-year-old woman was found in a flat on Friday in October 11. The main suspect is her mother, who has been arrested. She was known to the secret service for radicalisation and had psychiatric problems.
A ‘murder by a relative’ investigation was opened in Mulhouse after the body of a 19-year-old woman was found with stab wounds on Friday October 11. France Bleu Alsace learnt of this from the Mulhouse public prosecutor’s office, confirming a report in the newspaper L’Alsace. Her mother was immediately arrested as she was found at her daughter’s bedside who had a deep wound on her neck. Due to the mental state of the mother, questioning has not yet been possible.
The mother has mental health problems. She is therefore being cared for by the psychiatric department of the hospital centre in Rouffach. Her name is already known to the judiciary. He has appeared in the intelligence service’s files for Islamic radicalisation since 2019. Her 19-year-old daughter was no longer at school and was reported by her school in 2019. She was mentored by a juvenile court judge who was supposed to get her out of this very rigorous view of Islam. ‘She had developed well and followed the programme,’ explains the public prosecutor’s office in Mulhouse.France Bleu
The victim had a deep wound on his neck, ‘bordering on decapitation’. Jean-François Assal described ‘a gesture of extreme violence in the vertebral part of the body’, adding that ‘the force exerted on the neck was great’. The autopsy confirmed that the young woman’s throat had been cut and that she had 16 wounds, including defensive wounds indicating attempted resistance.
The victim’s mother, who was found sitting on the bed muttering prayers, was arrested. ‘Although she is French, was born in France and studied in France, she refused to communicate in any language other than Arabic,’ said the prosecutor.
Jean-François Assal explained that the mother of the family had ‘dedicated her life to religion’, while her daughter, who had dropped out of school for several years, had been under the supervision of a juvenile court judge who had tried to remove her from her mother’s rigorous influence Actu17