French media report on Reykjavík hotel killings

Several foreign news outlets—particularly French ones—have reported on the double homicide at the Edition Hotel in Reykjavík, where a French woman is suspected of killing her husband and adult daughter.

The French news agency AFP published an article on the case shortly after noon. Major French media such as Libération, Le Parisien, and Le Télégramme, as well as CBS News in the United States, followed with their own coverage, all of which relayed the same essential facts: that a French tourist in her seventies is in police custody in Iceland, suspected of having murdered her husband and daughter at a luxury hotel in central Reykjavík on Friday.

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Victims were French tourists traveling together — Case investigated as homicide

The reports cite Icelandic public broadcaster RÚV and quote Assistant Chief of Police Ævar Pálmi Pálmason, who is leading the investigation. He confirmed that both victims had sustained injuries, including stab wounds.

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Two foreign tourists found dead at Reykjavik Edition Hotel

It is noted that the woman has been remanded in custody until Friday as the investigation continues.

AFP concludes its article by observing that “murders and fatal acts of violence are rare on this North Atlantic island, which frequently ranks among the most peaceful countries in the world,” though it also notes that “in recent years, several shootings and knife attacks—linked by police to organized crime—have disrupted the country’s traditionally calm atmosphere.”