The companion of a woman born in 1976 and found dead on Sunday at her home in Pont-Péan (Ille-et-Vilaine) admitted to investigators to be the cause of the death of his wife, who died "following a strangulation “, we learned this Monday from the Rennes prosecutor’s office.

This man, born in 1987, went to the Rennes police station "to report that he had found his wife dead at his home in Pont-Péan", said Sunday the public prosecutor Philippe Astruc.

“A dispute” mentioned by the respondent

With regard to these facts, "he quickly admitted to the investigators that he was at the origin of the death of his wife following a strangulation with an extension cord which was indeed to be found in the couple's apartment", said explained Philippe Astruc to AFP.

According to the prosecution, an autopsy carried out on Monday “determined death by mechanical strangulation, with the help of a link.

No old traumatic trace was found on the victim's body.

The defendant, who "does not really explain his gesture and evokes an argument", will be referred Tuesday to the Rennes prosecutor's office for the opening of a "criminal investigation for intentional homicide by spouse", indicates the prosecutor.

The magistrate adds that “the penalty incurred is life imprisonment” and that incarceration requisitions will be taken.

A separation requested by the victim

On Sunday, the man had been taken care of by the gendarmes and taken to his apartment in this town south of Rennes where the lifeless body of his wife was actually discovered.

"It was found on the body of the victim of lesions attesting to a death following violence", added Philippe Astruc.

The prosecution has opened a criminal investigation entrusted to the Research Brigade (BR) of Rennes.

The couple met in 2014 and married in 2017. The respondent is a mason on a permanent contract in his brother's company while the woman was unemployed, according to the prosecutor.

But a separation, at the initiative of the wife, was made in November 2021.

The husband "had for his part been hospitalized in February 2022 following a suicide attempt which had required a one-month stay in a specialized environment".

“At that time, he was to be the subject of a procedure for violence without ITT on medical personnel,” adds the prosecutor.

And according to the prosecution, “a resumption of more frequent relations within the couple seems to have taken place since the beginning of the year 2023”.

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