Police suspect that she has killed her husband and daughter when they were on vacation. A French tourist of about sixty was arrested this Saturday, June 14 in Iceland, according to the Rúv public television channel.
Requested on Sunday, Icelandic police were not immediately available to comment on the investigation and has not yet formally confirmed that the suspect had a relationship with the victims.
The man and his daughter were found dead on Saturday morning at the Hotel Edition, a luxury establishment in the Capital Reykjavik, and presented “injuries, including white weapon wounds,” Aevar Palmi Palmason, Rúv, told Rúv. “A deeper investigation will determine what type of injury is,” he added.
The suspect placed in prior detention to trial
The suspect was found alive, also injured in a stabbing, RUV said on Saturday at the end of the day. The chain did not provide details about the identity of the victims.
Police said in a statement that the Court of Reykjavik had placed the woman in preventive detention until June 20 “as part of an investigation (…) about the death of two French tourists in a hotel in the center of the city.”
“The woman put in detention was traveling with the deceased when the case exploded,” the statement said.
The murders and acts of fatal violence are rare on this island of the North Atlantic, regularly classified in the upper part of the World Peace Index (Global Peace Index) from its integration into the classification in 2008, with a very low crime rate.
However, several shootings and stabbed attacks, delimited according to the police to the criminal gangs, have disturbed the usual tranquility of Iceland in recent years.
Source: BFM TV
