The former husband of a policewoman, killed Thursday in the middle of the street in a village in Savoy, was indicted and imprisoned on Sunday for the assassination of his ex-spouse, announced the Chambéry prosecution.
Arrested Friday morning in Arvillard, a town near La Croix-de-la-Rochette (Savoie) where the facts had taken place, the suspect “in the state of his statements at this stage of the procedure admits his involvement in the death of the victim but disputes any intention of homicide”, indicated the prosecutor of Chambéry Pierre-Yves Michau in a press release.
The murder of the 42-year-old policewoman occurred on Thursday morning on the public highway when she was off duty. The victim had just dropped off one of her children at the crèche in the village of La Croix-de-la-Rochette, near Chambéry, where she lived, and was walking home, accompanied by her 3-year-old son.
The weapon could be a machete
The assailant “gave him more than a dozen violent blows with a weapon which, according to the findings made on the spot later by the forensic doctor, could be a machete-type weapon”, had indicated Pierre- Yves Michau. The woman died shortly after, despite the rapid intervention of emergency services.
She had two children with this man, whom she divorced in 2021, the couple then residing in Nice. He was notably sentenced in 2020 by the Nice Criminal Court for non-compliance with a protection order, according to the prosecution.
Since her transfer to Savoie, where she was a police officer at the Chambéry police station, the victim had filed a complaint for non-payment of alimony but had not initiated “any other legal proceedings in Savoie for violence, harassment or any other offense against the respondent”, concludes the prosecution