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Nice: a Russian killed with a knife, her companion arrested

2022-06-01T17:20:46.040Z


A 52-year-old Russian man was arrested on Wednesday June 1 in Nice on suspicion of stabbing his 34-year-old girlfriend to death.


A 52-year-old man of Russian nationality was arrested on Wednesday June 1 in Nice, suspected of having stabbed his 34-year-old partner to death, in front of his 9-year-old son, announced the public prosecutor. .

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On Wednesday morning, the police were notified of "

acts of violence

" committed with knives in a residence in Nice.

Upon their arrival, they found the death of a 34-year-old Russian woman, with wounds on the face, chest, abdomen and limbs, said the prosecutor, Xavier Bonhomme, in a press release.

It was the child of the victim, aged 9, who would have himself alerted the emergency services.

A 52-year-old man, already convicted of theft in 2016 and 2017, present at the scene and "

presumed author of the stab wounds

" was arrested and placed in police custody for "

aggravated voluntary homicide

".

He must also appear in October before the Nice Criminal Court for "

theft and violence without incapacity committed on the victim and the son of the latter

".

The nature of the relationship between the victim and the alleged perpetrator is, however, "

being verified

", the statement added.

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According to a report from the Ministry of the Interior, 146 women were killed by their spouse in 2019 and 102 in 2020. The feminist collective against gender-based and sexual violence #NousToutes counted 113 murders of women in 2021. In total, in France, more than 200,000 women are victims of violence each year, according to the ministry.

Source: lefigaro

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