Europe 1 with AFP 4:15 p.m., February 3, 2024

An administrative investigation targeting the police was ordered in the Var. On Friday, the police intervened at the home of a couple at the request of the wife, a few minutes before the husband, a drunk in his sixties, killed his wife. The investigation will have to “determine whether the rules of intervention and treatment of this type of situation were respected”.

An administrative investigation was ordered targeting the police who intervened on Friday at the home of a couple in Sanary-sur-Mer, in the Var, just a few minutes before the husband, a drunk in his sixties, killed his wife , announced the Toulon prosecutor’s office on Saturday.

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Friday at 2:30 p.m., a police emergency team arrived at the couple's home, at the request of the 64-year-old wife. They then noted on the spot "their respective state of alcoholism and the existence of a marital dispute", details the Toulon prosecutor, Samuel Finielz, in a press release. While the woman explains that she does not wish to file a complaint, her husband "spontaneously hands over several weapons and ammunition" to the police, weapons that he possessed illegally. This couple was until now unknown to the courts.

The accused referred by Sunday

Barely having left, the police were called back at 4:00 p.m. and they found the woman's lifeless body. The husband, aged 69, “immediately indicates having killed his wife with a bladed weapon”, continues the prosecutor. “In order to determine whether the rules for intervention and handling of this type of situation were respected, an administrative investigation, parallel to the judicial investigation, was ordered by the interdepartmental police director,” specifies the prosecution.

The accused should be referred to him by Sunday with a view to opening a judicial investigation for spousal homicide. A feminicide occurs on average every three days in France. In 2022, 118 women were killed by their spouse or ex-spouse, according to a report from the Ministry of the Interior.