Sunday July 30, at 6.48 p.m. at the Kerné campsite in Quiberon (Morbihan), the gendarmes intervened “initially for an altercation between a man and a woman”, indicates prosecutor Stéphane Kellenberger, in a press release received by France Bleu, News Morbihan And West France this Friday.
Stupor when the soldiers noticed on their arrival “a man lying on the ground, a young woman kneeling next to him. “The man lying on the ground had a wound in the chest,” said the prosecution. The blow, struck by the young woman, the victim’s spouse, with a knife, “perforated the heart”, giving the emergency services no chance of resuscitating the man.
The accused defends never having intended to kill
The young woman, immediately taken into custody by the police, admitted “having stabbed her boyfriend after he assaulted her and threatened her with a pair of scissors”, indicates the floor to the local media.
After a short stint in a psychiatric unit, she will admit on Wednesday “never to have intended to kill her companion” but that she wanted to defend herself. Indicted on Friday for spousal homicide, she was remanded in custody and faces life imprisonment.