A 25-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday after the discovery in Nexon (Haute-Vienne) of the bodies of his former companion and of a man in a burnt down house from which three children could be extracted alive, announced Monday the prosecutor of Limoges.
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This man had been sentenced in immediate appearance in August 2019 to one year in prison, including six months suspended and put on probation for acts of domestic violence on a woman other than the victim, explained the prosecutor Baptiste Porcher to a correspondent from AFP. According to the same source, the woman found dead, aged 33, had been the victim of domestic violence committed by another man. In addition, no complaint had been filed for acts of this nature committed on her by the suspect arrested.
The bodies of the two adults were discovered on the ground floor of the house while the 5, 7 and 12-year-old children were rescued through an upstairs window by firefighters in the middle of the night. The deceased man is probably a neighbor according to the prosecutor but nothing suggests that he was in a relationship with the thirty-something.
The alleged perpetrator, born in February 1996, was arrested Tuesday morning at his home, near Nexon, without difficulty. He is suspected of aggravated murder on the person of his former spouse, murder on the person of the other man, and attempted murder on the three children. An autopsy is to be conducted Thursday to try to find out whether the two adults died before or during the fire. In 2020, 90 feminicides were officially recorded in France, against 146 the previous year.