The man who had attempted suicide and confessed to having killed his wife in the Yvelines, was indicted for spousal homicide and imprisoned on Tuesday by the Versailles prosecutor's office, the Versailles prosecutor's office said on Wednesday.
Last Thursday, the 42-year-old man had called the Samu, declaring that he had killed his wife, of the same age.
Discovered inert at her side at the couple's home, the rescuers had tried to revive her in vain.
Placed first in police custody, then in the hospital because he was injured, the spouse would have struck himself with a knife, in the throat and in the arm, according to a police source.
More than 110 feminicides last year
At the end of his hospital custody on Tuesday, the man was brought to justice, indicted and then placed in pre-trial detention, said the public prosecutor, stressing the fact that he had fully acknowledged the facts.
The autopsy confirmed "many stab wounds" on the victim's body, including "two fatal blows", revealed a source familiar with the matter.
According to the latest figures from the Ministry of the Interior, 146 women were victims of feminicides in 2019, and 102 in 2020. 2021.
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