A 34-year-old man, arrested twice this summer for domestic violence, was taken into custody after being accused of the murder of his partner in Carmaux (Tarn), AFP learned Wednesday (September 8) from a police source. .
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The police, alerted Tuesday around 8:30 pm by the gendarmes about a "
drunken man who claims to have killed his companion
", note the death of the woman. "
The autopsy performed confirms a death by intervention of a third party
", underlines in a press release the prosecutor of Albi Bernard Lavigne. The latter, aged 62, "
died of suffocation,
" said the police source. The thirty-something admitted in police custody "
having committed the facts under the effect of anger, itself linked to a minor disagreement
," said Bernard Lavigne.
The thirty-something, placed in police custody, was arrested on July 23 for domestic violence and was to be tried on January 10.
He was again arrested and taken into police custody on August 16 for the same reasons, and received another summons to court for February 7.
The investigation was entrusted to the local police station.
"
The accused should be presented Thursday before an investigating judge of the Toulouse judicial court to answer for the count of murder on a spouse
", according to the same source.
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In 2020, 102 women - for 23 men - lost their lives to the blows of their spouse or ex-spouse, according to figures unveiled in early August by the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, against 146 in 2019.
