A French tourist suspected of having killed her husband and their daughter – Liberation
A French tourist is in detention in Iceland this Sunday, June 15, suspected of having killed her husband and their daughter. The woman in sixties was arrested the day before, while the three were On vacation on the Scandinavian islandaccording to local public television.
The man and his daughter were found dead in a luxury hotel in the capital Reykjavik on Saturday morning and presented « Wounds, including stabs », told the public television channel Rúv Aevar Palmi Palmason, officer at the Reykjavik police. The suspect, on the other hand, was found alive, also injured with stabbing, said RUV again on Saturday at the end of the day.
« A more in -depth investigation will determine what type of injury it is », he added. Icelandic police have not yet formally confirmed that the suspect had a relationship with the victims.
Police say in a statement that the Reykjavik court had placed the woman in pre -trial detention until June 20 « As part of an investigation (…) on the death of two French tourists in a downtown hotel »: « The woman placed in detention was traveling with the deceased when the case broke out. »
Murders and acts of fatal violence are rare on this North Atlantic island, regularly classified at the top of the World Peace Index (Global Peace Index) since its integration into the ranking in 2008, with a very low crime rate.
Several shootings and stabbing attacks, bounded according to the police to criminal bands, have however disturbed the usual tranquility of Iceland in recent years.
