Overview

• Dismembered remains were recovered in mid-February 2023 after city workers found body parts in Buttes-Chaumont park and additional fragments in garbage bags in Bobigny.
• Autopsies uncovered numerous bruises and hematomas that occurred minutes or hours before death, pointing to sustained pre-mortem violence.
• Lakhdar M. told investigators he strangled his wife during a financial dispute to “silence her,” while denying intent to kill or harm.
• Two psychiatric experts concluded he suffered no mental disorder and that his discernment was neither abolished nor impaired at the time of the killing.
• He faces an aggravated murder charge carrying life imprisonment with a mandatory minimum term of 22 years under French law.