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by Tiziana Di Giovannandrea August 18, 2019 Return from the holidays to a horror movie. A man was arrested in Haute-Savoie in France while returning from Italy after the holidays. A suitcase containing his dead wife was found in the trunk of his car.

According to sources close to the Prosecutor's office, the gendarmes stopped the car early in the morning at Doussard, on the shore of the lake of the city of Annecy, under an arrest warrant.

The man would already be known to the police, he would have a criminal record and was arrested around 5 am. The couple's two children, aged 6 and 7, were in the back seat of the car asleep, unaware of everything. According to French sources, children are "in good health" and have been temporarily entrusted to social services.

The French authorities are conducting a murder investigation to understand the dynamics of the facts and the personalities of the protagonists of the affair have not yet been made known.

In France, women killed in 2018 by their companions or former comrades were 121, one every three days, according to data provided by the Ministry of the Interior.