By Enyichukwu Enemanna
A 41-year-old man in France on Sunday turned himself in to authorities and confessed to killing three of his children, prosecutors and a police source stated.
“A man presented himself to the police in Dieppe (Seine-Maritime) to report that he had killed his three children,” the public prosecutor said, referring to the town in the northern French region of Normandy.
Two of the children were found dead in the town of Alfortville, located in southeastern suburbs of Paris, same location where their father lives but no detail was disclosed about the third child.
“Two deaths have been confirmed,” the public prosecutor said.
The children were stabbed to death, a police source said without providing other details.
The father, who was born in 1982, had been convicted of domestic violence in 2021, said a source close to the case.
A restraining order against him was issued but subsequently vacated.
The man was taken into police custody, the prosecutors said.
