A 60-year-old man suspected of having killed his partner was arrested on Wednesday in Pithiviers (Loiret).

He was then taken into custody.

A device of around forty gendarmes had been deployed around the home of the suspect, who finally surrendered around noon after the intervention of the negotiators.

Gunshot wounds

The man had contacted the 17 around 5 a.m. to confess to having killed his 62-year-old concubine, reports France 3 Center-Val de Loire.

She was found dead in her own home.

"Traces of gunshot wounds" were found

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said the prosecutor of the Republic of Orleans Emmanuelle Bochenek-Puren.

113 women were killed by their spouse or ex-spouse in 2021, according to a report by the feminist collective #NousToutes.

According to the Féminicides collective by companion or ex, this death would constitute the 14th feminicide perpetrated in 2022.

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