He is already before justice. Presented this Thursday, November 13 to the investigating judge, the man suspected of killing his ex’s new friend in Champigny-sur-Marne (Val-de-Marne), has been placed under judicial supervision and must immediately stand trial for acts of violence against his ex-partner, the Créteil prosecutor’s office told Le Parisien this Friday.
The man, 53 years old and born in Cape Verde, “has never been convicted by a French court”, explains his claim. However, he must “be tried on February 18, 2026 for acts of violence committed by his ex-partner who was unable to work for six days, which was committed on September 29, 2025,” added the same source.
In the previous case, J. was referred on October 2, 2025 and placed under judicial supervision. The court has banned him from making contact and appearing at his ex-partner’s home.
But on the night of November 10-11, J. broke into Delcy’s house, Jean-Moulin square, in Champigny-sur-Marne, and killed his new companion, a native of Oyonnax, in Ain, with a bullet to the head.
Then he forced Delcy to help him load the body into the back of his vehicle, before then putting it in a box several tens of meters away. The jealous former friend then took Delcy and their nine-year-old son to his home in Combs-la-Ville (Seine-et-Marne), where he kidnapped them. According to the Créteil prosecutor’s office, the 37-year-old woman stated in court that she too had been raped that night.
The next morning, while stepping over a parapet that was nearly ten meters high, Delcy passed through a neighbor’s balcony which raised the alarm. The suspect fled, and was only arrested at the end of the day on Tuesday, November 11, in Savigny-sur-Orge (Essonne).
A judicial investigation was opened this Friday into “murder, arbitrary detention of several people” and “rape by a former partner” in connection with the case, the Créteil prosecutor’s office told Le Parisien. An indictment and temporary detention of the suspect was requested.
“His psychiatric expertise concluded that there was no impairment of judgment” during the crime, prosecutors also explained, adding that the fifty-year-old man admitted to shooting his ex-wife’s friend, but “denied the other facts alleged against him.” An autopsy of his colleague’s body confirmed that the death was caused by a “fatal gunshot.”
A lonely man, already the father of two children from a previous marriage
Delcy and J. had separated almost two years ago. “We separated in February 2024, but he only left in April,” said the thirty-year-old, indicating that she had to go and live with her sister for two weeks “so that she understood that she had to leave”.
“Delcy told me she couldn’t continue living with him. He makes me miserableshe told me,” a neighbor detailed. Since the separation, “he was always downstairs,” she said. She didn’t want to open the door for him, but sometimes he managed to get into the building. »
J. had already entered his house, Delcy even said. That’s what caused him to file a complaint. “He is no longer allowed to come near my house. »
In Combs-la-Ville, at the La Closerie residence where he lived, other tenants described him as a solitary man. “He never welcomed anyone into his house,” said one of the tenants. We had a cockroach infestation in the building and he was the only one who refused to allow agents to enter his house. »
Before Delcy, he already had two children from another marriage, who are now 30 and 23 years old. Her ex-partner wouldn’t talk, only indicating that the split was amicable at the time. This Thursday, he was mainly stuck in administrative procedures to obtain compensation for his front door. This Tuesday, during a long manhunt, the police entered his house, in Seine-et-Marne, thinking that J. could have sought refuge there.
