A 64-year-old mother and her 24-year-old eldest son were found dead in the family apartment located Square d’Anjou, in Argenteuil (Val-d’Oise), this Sunday evening. A drama that is still unexplained when the police are still looking for the family’s younger son who suffers from psychiatric pathologies at the beginning of the evening. He would be breaking from treatment.
The alert is the youngest of the family who gives it by composing this Sunday evening on the 17th, around 9 p.m. He indicates that his mother is on the ground behind the front door closed, bears that he cannot open. A rescue police crew is immediately dispatched to the site, on the 4th floor bearing. The police then saw through the lock hole the elongated mother and a pool of blood.
The large scale of firefighters to access the apartment by the windows
Faced with the impossibility of entering, the police were able to enter the apartment with the help of the firefighters who deployed the large scale in order to access the floor by the windows overlooking avenue Maurice-Utrillo. They then discover the mother’s body against the front door which presents a wound in the head. Further on, on the sofa in the show, is the eldest son of the family, also found dead, also presenting a wound in the head.
According to the first observations made on site by the emergency services and the police, the two bodies have a cadaverous rigidity suggesting that the facts have occurred several hours earlier.
This Monday noon, the precise circumstances of the drama remain unknown. “We currently have no elements to establish the course of the facts,” says the Pontoise prosecutor’s office, which we have contacted. Regarding the causes of death, he indicates that “only one of the two victims seems to have received a projectile” of a firearm. The causes of death to be clarified by autopsies.
The desired younger son suffers from a “mental pathology”
In order to understand what could have occurred this Sunday in the apartment, the youngest son who gave the alert was placed in police custody and was heard by investigators from the organized and specialized crime division (DCOS) of the Val-d’Oise Judicial Police Service. A service that has been trying since this Sunday evening to also find the family’s younger son also, suspected of being involved in the course of the facts.
He is a young man who has been in the vicinity for many years of psychiatric disorders for many years. “The younger son actually suffers from mental pathology but it is not possible for the moment to determine if he is the author of the facts or if we are in the presence of a homicide followed by suicide,” confides the Pontoise prosecutor’s office which invites caution at the current stadium of investigations.
“It hurts to see that it happens to a family like that …” All the inhabitants of this Southern Val-d’Argent building met this Monday morning evoke a calm family. “I have known children since they are very young,” says a neighbor who frequented it regularly, especially in the father’s lifetime, who died about five years ago. “It’s been a long time since the family arrived from Kosovo is living here, fifteen years, no doubt more,” he said.
The eldest son came every weekend from Montpellier to see his mother
The neighbors all speak with a certain admiration of the eldest son. “He didn’t deserve that. He was super nice, posed. He was an engineer. He was following a training to become a line pilot. He lived in Montpellier (Hérault) and came every Saturday and Sunday to his mom he adored. We were all surprised. We were far from imagining what was going to happen. »»
Everyone also talks about this younger son who has suffered from psychiatric difficulties for many years. They would have originally been, partly, from the departure of the father in a rest home before his death.
“When he’s normal, he’s like you and me. He can even be nice and intelligent! He can speak of the history of France, talking about Algeria … But when it is not going … he is a patient, “says a neighbor who also tells that the younger son hit his father when he still lived on the spot. “He wanted to force him to get treatment. »»
