Europe 1 with AFP 1:14 p.m., August 22, 2022

A 49-year-old woman was taken into police custody on suspicion of having stabbed her ex-husband to death, who she said had tried to kill her, overnight from Sunday to Monday at Pré-Saint -Gervais (Seine-Saint-Denis) we learned from police sources.

A 49-year-old woman was taken into police custody on suspicion of having stabbed her ex-husband to death, who she said had tried to kill her, overnight from Sunday to Monday at Pré-Saint -Gervais (Seine-Saint-Denis) we learned from police sources.

"A woman is in police custody and investigations are underway," the Bobigny prosecutor's office told AFP, without further details.

"She called the police saying, 'I killed him'"

According to a police source, the woman had gone to the apartment of her ex-husband, also 49, in the evening to settle a dispute.

"According to her, he locked her up and tried to kill her. She defended herself by stabbing him in the neck," the source continued.

The facts took place around 3:00 a.m.

"She called the police saying, 'I killed him'," said a source familiar with the investigation.

Herself injured, she was hospitalized and then placed in police custody.

An investigation opened for intentional homicide

The victim "was a man without history, who left in the morning and returned in the evening in his little Clio", testified to AFP a neighbor specifying, on condition of anonymity, that he worked at the RATP.

According to her, the man had just moved into the building in May and was living alone.

The investigation opened for voluntary homicide was entrusted to the judicial police of Seine-Saint-Denis.