The victim's body was found Monday evening at his home in Marignane, with several stab wounds. Her husband, aged just under 90, was arrested and taken into police custody.
A “dispute” would be at the origin of this surge of unprecedented violence, but the circumstances of the case still remain unclear. Still according to a police source, an investigation was opened and entrusted to the Bouches-du-Rhône departmental security, Le Figaro learned.