In Paris, a university professor was killed with a knife, her ex-husband was charged

On Monday, March 20, at 8:56 a.m., when he was about to leave his house, on Prag Street (Paris 12).^e), Cécile Huscher-Poisson, was stabbed several times in the throat by a helmeted man carrying a messenger bag in the building’s lobby. The victim, who would have turned 48 on April 4, was not injured. Alarmed by the cries, the neighbors immediately called the ambulance and the police, and the workers who were working on the nearby site chased the assailant. He was arrested by the police ten minutes later in front of St. Margaret’s Church on St. Bernard Street (11).^e).

The man was identified as François-Xavier Houcher, the victim’s ex-husband. After forty-eight hours in police custody, he was charged with “murder” and remanded in custody, according to a prosecutor’s requisition, it was announced on Wednesday evening, March 22. the world from judicial sources.

They were placed in pretrial detention

Both are former students of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ulm for him, Kachan for him. Cécile Houscher-Poisson, associate professor of classics, specialist in the rewriting of myths in literature and the relationship between literature and new technologies, was a Gustave-Eiffel lecturer at the University of Champs-sur-Marne (Saint-e-Marne). where he taught comparative literature. He was also an “equality advocate” on the faculty.

Her ex-husband, François-Xavier Houcher, born in 1972, PhD and associate professor of economics specializing in new technologies, was director of Internet and new media activities at Médiamétrie and president of the Renaissance Numérique association.. The couple founded in 2009 Lelevrescolaire.fr, the first publisher of interactive digital textbooks.

Since 2019, François-Xavier Houcher is the president and co-founder of Professorbob.ai, an artificial intelligence startup aimed at helping students in need, hosted at the Ecole Polytechnique incubator in Palaiseau (Essonne). His company won a tender in July 2022 for 23 million euros over five years to fight school dropouts with the Ministry of National Education.

He is also the author of several books, including two with his ex-husband. Building the XXI educational model^e century (FYP Publications, 2017) and The new power of Internet users (Timely Editions, 2006). In 2005, Cécile Huscher-Poisson published an essay on Serf’s Abel and Cain in Literature, titled. The angel and the beast.