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The Brazilian Rodrigo Martin, 27, suspected of killing his wife, Franciele Alves, 29, stabbed the police in Choisy-le-Roi, about 20 km from Paris, on Saturday night (26). The crime took place on Friday (25) in the couple’s apartment and since then he has been actively searched by the French police. They have two children, ages 2 and 4.
The Brazilians lived in Paiçandu, Paraná, before moving to France. The probable femicide took place in the apartment where they lived in Champigny-sur-Marne, a municipality in the greater metropolitan area of Paris.
The mayor of the city, Laurent Jeanne, told Le Parisien that he did not know the couple and that his main concern, when he learned of the crime on Friday night, was the fate of the two minors. “Initially we believed that the father had kidnapped the children and we were very scared,” said the mayor, relieved to learn that the children were found safe and sound in the home of Rodrigo Martín’s boss, 700 meters from the scene of the crime. “This is the only positive in this case,” said the mayor.
Franciele Alves was found by the police with a knife stuck in the chest and three wounds of approximately 5 centimeters in the lower part of the body. The probable feminist took place shortly before 8 pm on Friday (3 pm in Brasilia) and the Brazilian was pronounced dead about an hour later.
Four days before the fatal assault, Fran, as her friends called her on social media, shared a premonitory message: “Don’t marry death, don’t adopt a beard. The relationship with someone who only makes you suffer is to surrender to death. “. and I hope it doesn’t happen. “
On Martin’s Facebook profile, below an old photo of the couple with the Eiffel Tower in the background, an acquaintance wrote: “Hey, this male, yes, my youngest happiness is there for you.”
What is known about the crime
On Friday, a neighbor of the couple called French police to go to the apartment where the Brazilian family lived in a three-story building in the center of Champigny-sur-Marne, near the town hall. Earlier, he had overheard an argument in the couple’s apartment. Minutes later, Martin rang the bell and asked him to call the police. The Paranaense left the building taking the two children. He then walked 700 meters to the home of the boss, a small construction contractor, where he left the children before fleeing. However, the escape lasted only 24 hours, because the suspect spontaneously turned himself in to the police.
Investigators treat the case as a probable femicide based on the testimony of the couple’s niece. She arrived at the apartment during the police intervention, because the couple had asked her to go take care of the children.
The two young children were referred to the state welfare services. The mayor of Champigny told Le Parisien newspaper that he will follow the case and that the municipality will collaborate with the Justice.
“It was a totally unknown family for our social services,” insisted the mayor. “It seems they settled in the city two years ago, and the oldest boy entered kindergarten at the beginning of the school year, in September,” added Jeanne.
In the Facebook groups of Brazilians in Paris, the consternation is immense. The women exchange messages lamenting the fate of Fran. Many wonder why she did not ask for help if she felt her partner threatened her with death. The prosecutor opened an investigation for intentional homicide.
In 2019, 146 women were victims of femicide in France, according to official figures. Since the beginning of the year, the AFP agency has registered 49 murders of women by their husbands or ex-partners throughout the country.
