A 50-year-old stabbed at her home, her husband brought for voluntary homicide

After a fifty-year-old was killed on Tuesday with around twenty stab wounds in Boulazac (Dordogne), her husband must be presented to an examining magistrate on Thursday to be indicted for “intentional homicide by spouse”, indicated Solene Belaouar. The prosecutor of Périgueux, announcing the opening of a judicial investigation explained in a press release that the prosecution requested the placement in pre-trial detention of this 52-year-old man.

Help notified by the husband

The victim was seriously injured and showed twenty stab wounds when the emergency services intervened on Tuesday evening, warned by the alleged murderer who had left the scene but could be arrested quickly, alcoholic. The 50-year-old died shortly thereafter. “In the state of the first hearings, the person concerned admits having voluntarily stabbed his wife in the context of an argument”, explained Solène Belaouar.

“The exact circumstances of the commission of the facts remain to be clarified, in particular with regard to the conclusions of the forensic investigations which are still in progress on the victim”, she added.

A former gendarme removed from the executives in 2014

According to the prosecution, the respondent is a former gendarme removed from the executives in 2014 after twenty years of service. He has only one mention on his criminal record concerning a theft committed in 2016 and has never been convicted of acts of domestic violence, according to the same source. The couple had been married for several years. No child was present at the home during the incident, according to the prosecution.

According to the latest figures from the Ministry of the Interior, 122 women were killed by their spouse or ex-spouse in 2021, a number up 20% compared to 2020.

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