A 60-year-old man was taken into custody on Tuesday for the murder of his 46-year-old partner.
The victim was allegedly killed with a knife in Mont-Saint-Aignan, in the suburbs of Rouen (Seine-Maritime).
"A person called the police at 9:30 am indicating that he had killed his partner," said Rouen public prosecutor Pascal Prache.
“When the police arrived at his home, the victim was lying on the ground and presented with stab wounds.
The respondent was taken into custody for spousal homicide.
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The face of the victim "swollen and lacerated"
The woman was placed under curatorship.
The suspect, with a clean criminal record, would have been interned in psychiatry at the beginning of the year, said the prosecutor.
The forty-something had gone to her companion that very morning.
An autopsy was performed this Wednesday morning.
The victim's body was unrecognizable when the police arrived, a judicial source told Paris Normandy.
His face was "swollen and lacerated" and his body also showed signs of beatings and lacerations.
She would likely have received several punches or kicks.
The ultimate stage in the violence suffered by more than 200,000 women per year, feminicides experienced a sharp increase in 2019, with 146 deaths recorded (25 more than in 2018).
In 2020 according to figures from the Ministry of Justice, 90 women were killed by their spouse or ex-spouse.
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