A man was arrested in Chilly-Mazarin (Essonne) on the night of Thursday to Friday after calling the police to inform them of injuries on his spouse, in fact deceased, we learned from a police source, confirming information of the Parisian . The police force, who thought to intervene for domestic violence, found the lifeless body of a woman in the apartment, specified the same source.
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The man was arrested around 5:00 am by the police and was hospitalized in psychiatry. The autopsy should allow to know more about the circumstances of the tragedy, according to the police source who specified that the investigation was entrusted to the departmental security. In 2019, AFP identified at least 126 cases of women killed by their partner or ex, or a woman every three days on average.