A 52-year-old woman was found dead in Aude and her American husband was taken into police custody.
The body was discovered in a drainage pipe on Friday morning July 24 in the village of Peyriac-de-mer, in the Corbières Maritimes, near the Mediterranean coast. The couple were due to leave for Indonesia, where they were residing, on Friday. The husband was arrested at Toulouse airport, according to a source close to AFP, confirming information from the newspaper L'Indépendant .
The father of the victim, of French nationality, had called the town hall of Peyriac-de-mer, worried not to see the couple arrive who should have visited him in Carcassonne before his departure. The Franco-American couple had an apartment in this village near Narbonne, where they lived a few weeks a year.
An investigation has been opened for intentional homicide. The circumstances of the tragedy are being investigated.