A 55-year-old man was referred Monday as part of an open judicial investigation for “violence resulting in death without intention to give it” after the death on Saturday of a woman with whom he had a relationship, the prosecution said. de Créteil to AFP, confirming information from the Parisian.
Aged 52, this woman was transported in cardiorespiratory arrest by the emergency services from Sucy-en-Brie (Val-de-Marne) to a nearby hospital where she died on Saturday at the start of the afternoon, detailed the ministry. audience. From a police source, it was the man who was with her who himself called the Samu.
The autopsy revealed that the victim had died of a cerebral hemorrhage, added the prosecution. The medical examiner noted lesions “suggesting violence by a third party”.
Known for acts of domestic violence
“In view of the information collected by the investigators”, the man, lover of the deceased according to the prosecution, was “placed in police custody in the afternoon of August 26 for acts of violence which led to the death without intention to give it by a person who is or has been a spouse, cohabiting partner or PACS partner”.
He was referred on Monday and will be presented to an investigating judge on Tuesday, detailed the public prosecutor. He requested that he be remanded in custody. The investigations were entrusted to the departmental service of the judicial police of Val-de-Marne.
The man in question was already known for acts of domestic violence, said the prosecution. He had been sentenced to a six-month suspended prison sentence in October 2020 in Paris for “acts of violence by spouse” which resulted in his ex-wife being incapacitated for 15 days in 2017. In early March 2023, he was placed in police custody after his current wife filed a complaint in January accusing him of raping her and committing psychological violence against her. An investigation into these latest facts “will soon be the subject of a policy decision”, according to the public prosecutor.