A 60-year-old man is in police custody this Sunday in Nice, suspected of having committed the third feminicide of the year in France.

The lifeless body of a 46-year-old woman was thus discovered on the evening of Saturday, told

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the deputy public prosecutor, Parvine Derivery, confirming information from Nice-Matin.

It was the sixty-something himself who came to meet the police at the Auvare barracks, in the east of the city, reporting an argument that had broken out with his wife.

Sunday morning, the prosecution could not specify if it was his ex or his current partner.

The couple's eldest son also in custody

According to the prosecutor, the victim was killed by strangulation.

And his body would have been discovered in the trunk of a car, according to the regional daily.

The couple's eldest son was also in custody this Sunday morning.

The investigation was entrusted to the criminal brigade of the departmental security.

As early as Saturday evening on Twitter, Christian Estrosi "denounced the horror of this assassination" which is "already the third feminicide on January 1 in our country".

Murders occurred on Saturday in Maine-et-Loire and Meurthe-et-Moselle.

The mayor of Nice also specified that the victim "was an agent of [the] community" of Nice.

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