A 41-year-old man known for domestic violence surrendered to French police on Sunday and was detained after admitting to killing all three of his daughters, aged 4, 10 and 11, at his home in Alfortville, a suburb of Paris, AFP reported.

The Prosecutor’s Office of Crete, contacting AFP, confirmed “the death of three girls aged 4, 10 and 11”.

A father appeared at the Dieppe police station in Normandy on Sunday afternoon, saying he had killed his children.

Police then went to the man’s home in Alfortville, where they found the bodies of three children. According to preliminary information, two of them were killed with a knife, a police source said. Their bodies were covered with a blanket. The third dead child was lying on the couch.

This man was repeatedly convicted of domestic violence and violence against minors.

According to a source close to the case, he and the children’s mother shared custody. The man assured that he does not know where the mother of his children is now, and the police could not contact her at lunch on Sunday.

Police and gendarmerie recorded 64,300 victims of non-marital domestic violence in 2021, of which 47,900 were physical, a 16% increase on 2020, the Home Office warned in February. “80% of the victims at the time of the events were minors, more than half (59%) were women,” the message reads.

Almost a month ago, on Sunday, October 29, the gendarme killed his three daughters in his home in Weimar, near Paris, and then committed suicide.