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Chinese nanny admitted in a Paris court Tuesday to killing and
dismembering the parents of a baby who had died in her care, in a
gruesome case worthy of a horror movie.
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| The first floor of the apartment lived in by two victims of a Chinese couple, who admitted to have killed another couple whose bodies were found in the Bois de Vincennes forest, near Paris, on June 19, 2012 |
"It's
true, I killed them, and I will regret it for the rest of my life," the
diminutive Hui Zhang, 34, said at the start of the hearing.
Hui
said she merely acted in self-defence as the furious parents of the
dead newborn attacked her and her boyfriend with a butcher's knife.
Her boyfriend and co-accused Te Lu, also 34, denied helping Hui kill the couple.
"I was sucked into a whirlwind of nightmares but I am innocent," he told the court.
The
case first came to light in June 2012 after two joggers came upon a
leg, cut off at the ankle, in the Vincennes forest on the edge of the
French capital.
Several days later, a guide dog found a human torso in the same area, but the hunt for further remains was fruitless.
Police
knew the victims were Asian and initially thought the murders could be
the work of the Chinese mafia, or of Luka Rocco Magnotta, a Canadian
convicted of killing and dismembering a Chinese student who spent time
in Paris.
But before the bodies could even be identified, Hui and Te turned themselves in. Hui told police she had been babysitting a two-month-old baby who died in his sleep.
She and her partner decided to offer the child's parents money to try to get them not to report the boy's death.
They invited the parents to their home, but said their plans quickly went awry faced with the fury of the grieving couple.
AFP
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