A week after the tragedy, the investigation is progressing. A 51-year-old man, suspected of having stabbed his ex-companion to death in Sarthe, was indicted Thursday in Le Mans for murder and imprisoned, we learned from the prosecution. This 50-year-old was indicted “on the count of intentional homicide, with premeditation, and on the person of a spouse”, specifies in a press release the public prosecutor of Le Mans, Delphine Dewailly.
The 50-year-old victim was found dead on March 3 at his home in Coulans-sur-Gée, a town west of Le Mans. The autopsy showed that she had been stabbed several times, “in the neck, heart, abdomen”, according to Delphine Dewailly.
No facts reported to the gendarmerie
The investigation carried out by the gendarmerie and the scientific analyzes had “quickly led to consider the implication of this man in the death”, she explains, stressing that “serious and concordant indications” exist against the mistress. in question. “Childhood friend of the victim, the person concerned had reconnected with her for a few years, and shared his daily life between Coulans-sur-Gée and the home of his ex-wife, from whom he was divorced”, indicates Delphine Dewailly.
“It seems that a decision of final separation had just been taken” between the victim and the suspect, who “remains evasive” on the reasons and the circumstances of this feminicide. The victim’s entourage had not noticed any violence within the couple and the latter had not reported such facts to the gendarmerie either. The defendant has no criminal record, adds the prosecutor.