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A 60-year-old man was taken into custody on Tuesday for the murder of his 46-year-old companion, probably with a knife, in the suburbs of Rouen, we learned from the public prosecutor.
“A person called the police at 9:30 am indicating that he had killed his partner. When the police arrived at his home in Mont-Saint-Aignan, the victim was lying on the ground and had stab wounds, ”Rouen prosecutor Pascal Prache told AFP. “The respondent was taken into custody for spousal homicide,” he added.
The victim placed under curatorship
The woman was placed under curatorship and the man, without a criminal record, “would have been interned in psychiatry at the Rouvray hospital at the beginning of the year”, further clarified the prosecutor. The forty-something had gone to her companion that very morning. An autopsy will be performed on Wednesday morning.
The ultimate stage in the violence suffered by more than 200,000 women per year, feminicides experienced a sharp increase in 2019, with 146 deaths recorded (25 more than in 2018). In 2020 according to figures from the Ministry of Justice, 90 women were killed by their spouse or ex-spouse.