26 December 2023 , 18:50
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A man who allegedly stabbed his wife and four kids to death at their home on Christmas Day has been named as Frenchman Noé Bafania.
Bafania, 33, who is from a Haitian background, is in custody following the bloodbath which took place in the Paris commuter town of Meaux on December 25. It has since emerged that he launched a knife attack on his wife Beatrice, 35, four years ago, however, he evaded charges due to his psychological state.
The suspected knifeman carried out the frenzied attack on his two sons and two daughters, who were aged 10, seven, four and nine months. He has declined opportunities to speak to the police following his arrest on Boxing Day.
His arrest comes after a neighbour found their corpses after seeing blood on the handle of the front door of their flat on Christmas Day, said Jean-Baptiste Bladier, the Meaux prosecutor.
He explained how greater Paris-born Bafania is suspected of using a knife to kill three members of thefamily, before either suffocating or drowning the youngest – the boy aged four, and the baby.
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Then Bafania was captured on CCTV leaving the home on Monday evening, and initially fleeing to his own father’s home, and then his grandmother’s home. While Bafania was known for ‘domestic violence,’ he retained a clean criminal record, said Mr Bladier. "
He was involved in a procedure following the use of a knife at his home" in November 2019, the prosecutor explained. Bafania stabbed his wife in the shoulders, meaning she was unable to work for at least five days. It later emerged that Bafania had locked his family inside their Meaux flat, and told them "no one can leave" because he was depressed.
Bafania, 33, who is from a Haitian background, is in custody following the bloodbath which took place in the Paris commuter town of MeauxAccording to the prosecutors office, Bafania waved his weapon in the air, while saying he wanted to commit suicide, before stabbing his wife repeatedly. He was briefly placed in police custody, but the case against him was dropped completely in January 2020 because of his poor psychological state.
While Bafania now technically faces life imprisonment, he could still be declared too mentally ill to stand trial. A neighbour of the family who raised the alarm following the latest attack, said she had last been on the phone to Beatrice Bafania at around 7pm on Sunday.
"She said she was waiting for the return of her husband," said the witness. When the neighbour visited the family flat on Christmas Day, she found "blood on the front door handle," and alerted the police.
This neighbour described the mother-of-four as being "very jovial and very kind", adding: "she was like a sister, always there for us, she lived for her family, her children and for her husband. Her children are friends with my children, they are in the same class in the same school."