A 32-year-old man suspected of the murder of his ex-girlfriend surrendered to the Lyon judicial police and was taken into custody on Sunday morning, said the Bourgoin Jallieu prosecutor's office.
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An investigation was opened for "
domestic homicide, a crime punishable by life imprisonment, and entrusted to the Lyon judicial police, co-seized with the Bourgoin Jallieu police station
", said prosecutor Dietlind Baudoin in a press release.
The body of the 26-year-old victim was found around midnight in a vehicle parked near Saint Luc Saint Joseph hospital in Lyon.
The young woman "
had already been the victim of domestic violence by the same man
", according to the prosecutor.
Couple's child found in car
The couple's three-year-old child was found alone in the middle of the night in a car parked in Bourgoin Jallieu.
"
The father of this child had called his own mother to pick him up at a place he told her
," said the prosecutor.
According to the
Dauphiné Libéré
, the child's grandmother, who arrived on the spot and considered the situation strange, had then raised the alarm, and the police had quickly found traces of blood, before launching a search to find the two. people.
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The man in question is said to be from Villefontaine (Nord-Isère), "
very unfavorably known to services, in particular for domestic violence (and) was already the subject of two search sheets
", according to the newspaper.
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