The body of a woman, whose face was swollen and bloody, was discovered on Saturday morning in the lobby of her building in Paris, AFP learned on Sunday from police sources and close to the case. It was her husband, 30, who called the emergency services the morning after finding the lifeless body of his 29-year-old partner, according to the source familiar with the matter.
According to his first statements, the latter, with whom he had just settled, had gone out on Friday evening and was to return at night, according to the police source. When he woke up, noticing his absence, he said he left the apartment, located in the 20th arrondissement, to go looking for him before making the macabre discovery, we continued from the same source.
An open investigation
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after paramedics arrived. A murder investigation has been opened and entrusted to the criminal brigade of the Paris judicial police, said the Paris prosecutor’s office, requested by AFP.