The man suspected of having killed his wife on Monday in the 12th arrondissement of Paris has been imprisoned. He was also indicted on the charge of assassination and remanded in custody, according to an AFP judicial source.
According to our information, the man is suspected of having stabbed him twice in the throat in the hall of their building, rue de Prague in Paris. He had been arrested in a church, in the 11th arrondissement.
Literature teacher
“The victim died of his injuries despite the intervention of the firefighters,” said the Paris prosecutor’s office on Monday. “Workers present in the building, where the facts took place, pursued a man likely to be the author of the facts”, had added the parquet floor. This couple had been separated for a few years, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The woman, born in 1975, was normalien, agrégé and teacher in comparative literature at the Gustave Eiffel University of Marne-la-Vallée (Seine-et-Marne). On her LinkedIn page, she presented herself as “working on myths and their rewriting as well as on women’s writing in the English and French languages”. According to a tweet from his colleague Mathilde Larrèreshe was “equality sentinel in college”, “adorable and much loved”, which was confirmed by several people who knew her on the social network.
An entrepreneur specializing in artificial intelligence
On her Facebook page, she posted a lot of content with a political dimension. One of his last publicly accessible publications dated back to 2020 and discussed domestic violence during confinement linked to the Covid-19 epidemic. Contacted by AFP on Wednesday, Gustave Eiffel University indicated that it had not planned to communicate. Also normalien, the imprisoned man is an entrepreneur specializing in artificial intelligence, author of several books in the 2000s devoted to the Internet and Internet users.
The number of feminicides increased by 20% in France in 2021 compared to the previous year, with 122 women killed under the blows of their spouse or ex-spouse, according to the latest figures available from the Ministry of the Interior. In 2022, the feminist association #NousToutes counted 147 feminicides.