A suspect was arrested on Thursday February 17 in Marmande (Lot-et-Garonne) after the murder of a young woman, stabbed overnight and then found dead in a street in the city center, AFP learned from the prosecutor's office. 'Agen.
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The victim received "
several stab wounds in the side and in the face
" at his home, before leaving his home and succumbing in the street during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, the Agen prosecutor's office told a correspondent from the AFP.
According to the prosecution, a man "
who had brought the victim home on Wednesday evening
" was arrested and placed in police custody on Thursday afternoon.
This suspect is not a former companion of the victim, said the prosecution.
According to the firefighters, alerted at 1:18 a.m. by a neighbor, the 31-year-old victim was found dead shortly after in a street in downtown Marmande near her home.
The young woman had three children, two of whom currently live in Spain with their father.
The father of the last child of the siblings, aged six, was exonerated after being heard by the investigators, added the prosecution.
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A flagrance investigation was entrusted to the research section of Bordeaux and to the research brigade of the gendarmerie of Marmande, according to the same source.
An autopsy was underway Thursday afternoon.