The suspect would have admitted that he "inadvertently" knocked down his companion during a drunken evening in La Vaivre, a small town located northwest of Belfort.

Aged 44, he was indicted for spousal homicide, we learned Monday from the prosecutor of Besançon, confirming information from

the Republican East

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The facts date back to last Wednesday.

A resident gives the alert after hearing the groans of a man on the ground, lying on his back, in front of the couple's garage.

Despite cardiac massage, the 40-year-old man died on the spot before he could be rescued by firefighters.

Wounds on the body

When he arrived at the scene at the wheel of his 208, his spouse "shows no particular emotion when his partner for four months is dying, which surprises the investigators", explained to AFP the prosecutor Étienne Coats.

Placed in police custody the same evening, the companion finally admitted after 30 hours of detention "having probably inadvertently hit his partner while moving his vehicle", denying however having struck him.

After the results of the autopsy of the victim known, the man was referred to the center of the instruction Friday evening, indicted for intentional homicide on spouse and placed in pre-trial detention.

The victim indeed suffered “a complete crushing of the thorax and had the fractured left eyebrow arch”, according to the conclusions of the pathologist revealed by the prosecution.

The two had been at odds for several weeks, with firefighters already having to intervene after an argument in which the deceased spouse was elbowed in the nose.

The suspect's sister had also filed a complaint after being violently pushed by her brother during an altercation between the two men she was trying to separate.

His brother was due to appear for these facts this week in the court of Vesoul as part of a plea-guilty procedure.

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