A man killed, his ex-spouse indicted and imprisoned

A woman has been indicted for intentional homicide by an ex-spouse and placed in pre-trial detention, suspected of having stabbed her former companion to death at Pré-Saint-Gervais (Seine-Saint-Denis), a- we learned this Tuesday from the Bobigny prosecutor’s office.

The respondent “challenged the homicidal intent in his first hearings conducted at the hospital”, said the prosecution. According to a police source, the 49-year-old woman went to her ex-husband’s apartment on the evening of August 21 to settle a dispute.

” I killed him “

“According to her, he locked her up and tried to kill her. She would have defended herself by stabbing him in the neck, ”continued this source. The incident took place around 3 a.m. “She called the police saying, ‘I killed him’,” said a source close to the investigation. Herself injured, she was hospitalized and then placed in police custody.

According to neighbors interviewed by AFP at the time, the 49-year-old man had just moved into the building in May and lived alone. The investigation was entrusted to the judicial police of Seine-Saint-Denis.

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