A man was indicted for " aggravated murder " Tuesday and placed in pre-trial detention after the death of his partner Sunday in Bourg-lès-Valence (Drôme), AFP learned from the Valence prosecution.
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The man has "a history of violence ", said AFP the public prosecutor Alex Perrin, without specifying if these antecedents concerned his partner. " The autopsy has already been performed, " added the prosecutor.
According to Le Dauphiné libéré, a 37-year-old woman was found seriously injured in a home in a Bourg-lès-Valence home on Sunday evening, " presenting serious wounds that may have been caused by a sharp object ". The firefighters failed to save her. Also according to the local newspaper, his 49-year-old companion, alcoholic and present on the scene, had then been arrested.
The case brings to at least 31 the number of alleged femicides since the beginning of the year, according to an AFP count. In 2019, AFP recorded at least 126 cases of women killed by their partner or ex, i.e. a woman every three days on average.
