The court of Nîmes (illustration). - N. Bonzom / Maxele Presse

A man appears from this Monday before the Assize Court of Gard, accused of having killed his partner, before falling asleep, drunk, near the corpse.

On April 11, 2017, in the apartment occupied by the couple in Alès, in the north of the department, he is suspected of having beaten and stabbed his partner, aged about 30, at least 12 times, at the level of the head and the belly. The firefighters had to shear the protective bars of the apartment so that the emergency services and the police could get inside.

An act of slaughter, according to forensic pathologists

They had discovered in a room covered with blood stains, the man, drunk, asleep near the body of the young woman, stabbed and larded at the level of the neck. An act of slaughter, according to the medical examiners of the CHU of Nîmes.

The young woman had called the police on several occasions for violence suffered by her husband, 15 years older than her. The trial of this man is scheduled until Tuesday, before the Assize Court of Gard.

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