Seine-Saint-Denis: suspected of a murder in Gagny, Nicolas is free

During the night of the tragedy, the young woman, from Saint-Ouen-l’Aumône (Val-d’Oise), her brother and three friends, came to the home of the forty-something to retrieve the two-wheeler. In still murky circumstances, the father stabbed the young woman with four stab wounds, including one fatal, carried under the right breast. She was taken to Montfermeil hospital by her relatives before dying around three in the morning of a hemorrhage, in the operating room.

Stabbing and tear gas

Nicolas and his family say for their part that the intruders entered the courtyard of their pavilion and sprayed it with tear gas. The forty-something admits having stabbed, on his knees. He assures that he was under the influence of fear and would have acted to defend himself. But the way he relates his story does not correspond to the forensic findings.

The victim’s 17-year-old brother, the only other witness questioned, accuses Nicolas “of being a liar” and declares that the facts took place in front of the house. For the teenager, the father stabbed the young woman without saying a word and one of his friends allegedly used a tear gas canister to defend them after the fact.

Shadow areas

Tuesday in front of the investigating chamber, the Advocate General, who requested the continued detention of Nicolas, estimated that “fear does not give the right to kill”. In the courtroom box, still moved to tears, the father did not stop repeating that he regretted this act and that the young woman “deceased could have been his daughter”.

The defense lawyer had pleaded in favor of release with a placement under judicial supervision, believing that the justice could not treat “a frightened man who defended his family, at home and at night, like a vulgar murderer “.