"He was stalking her," Najla Ben Ammar told the inquiry looking into the December 2019 killings of Dahia Khellaf, 42, and her sons, Adam, 4, and Aksil, 2.
Ben Ammar said the couple had split in the months before the killings, and the fate of the children was top of mind. Khellaf wanted full custody while Yssaad wanted joint custody. She said Yssaad was convinced Khellaf was seeing someone else. The call never took place and Khellaf did not show up to work the next day. Ben Ammar called her multiple times and later learned about the deaths on the news.
But two court social workers who met with Khellaf noted she wanted to get her husband assessed and treated for his mental health issues and did not want to testify at an eventual trial.