The wife of a man fatally stabbed at his home in Morangis (Essonne) at the end of August was indicted on Friday for intentional homicide and placed in pre-trial detention, said the Evry prosecution, requested by AFP. This 38-year-old woman was suspected of having used the knife with which her husband threatened her, a police source told AFP at the end of August.
blow to the chest
According to this source, shortly before 9 p.m. on August 31, a 16-year-old boy called the police to report that his mother’s partner was “running after her with a knife” at the family home. The operator had heard screams on the other end of the line and then the communication had been interrupted.
According to the teenager’s testimony, his mother would have managed to take back the knife and would have struck a blow to the chest of her husband, had reported the same source. Firefighters pronounced the victim dead at 9:40 p.m. The stabbed man was 41 years old, according to the Evry prosecution.
The flagrance investigation for spousal homicide was entrusted to the departmental security. In 2021, 143 spousal homicides were recorded, including 21 male victims, according to the Ministry of the Interior.