Pregnant Woman Killed

She was not only eight months pregnant, her boyfriend stuck her in the freezer! This macabre story is in Le Figaro:

The body of a pregnant woman was found yesterday in Villeneuve-le-Roi, Val-de-Marne, in the freezer of her apartment, after her boyfriend called the police to say he had killed her and to indicate where she was, according to a police source.

The man, 36, called the police to announce he had struck his wife (note: the text says "wife" but they don't seem to have been married) and killed her, adding that the body was in the freezer of their apartment. He also told the police that he had left France and was in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. On his information, the lifeless body of his companion, 25 and eight months pregnant, was found.

The couple's first child, 18 months, who was in the care of a neighbor, was placed in a foster home on a ruling by the court of Créteil.

An autopsy of the young woman's body will take place Saturday. The Créteil police are on the case.

Many of the readers' comments speak of a return to barbarity and of the possibility that the Democratic Republic of the Congo does not have extradition.

It sounds as if he knew exactly where to go to be protected. But what scruple caused him to inform the police?

There are more details at Le Parisien:

The man called not only the police but a cousin, to tell him what he had done. He prepared his escape. Earlier in the week he had turned his little boy over to a neighbor, saying he had to leave for Africa and his wife was in the hospital.

The neighbors describe them as a "quiet couple that hardly ever said hello." A police officer said that identifying him would be difficult because they don't even have proof he is in the Congo. He was apparently an illegal on French territory.

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