The husband of a woman killed on Tuesday with around twenty stab wounds in Boulazac (Dordogne) must be presented Thursday, September 1 to an examining magistrate to be indicted for "
intentional homicide by spouse
", indicated the prosecutor of Périgueux, announcing the opening of a judicial investigation.
Prosecutor Solène Belaouar explained in a press release that the prosecution was requesting the provisional detention of this 52-year-old man, a former gendarme.
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The victim was seriously injured and showed twenty stab wounds when the emergency services intervened on Tuesday evening, warned by the alleged murderer who had left the scene but could be arrested quickly, alcoholic.
The 50-year-old died shortly thereafter.
"
In the state of the first hearings, the person concerned admits having voluntarily stabbed his wife in the context of an argument
", explained Solène Belaouar.
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The exact circumstances of the commission of the facts remain to be clarified, in particular with regard to the conclusions of the forensic investigations which are still in progress on the victim
”, she added.
According to the prosecution, the respondent is a former gendarme removed from the executives in 2014 after twenty years of service.
He has only one mention on his criminal record concerning a theft committed in 2016 and has never been convicted of acts of domestic violence, according to the same source.
The couple had been married for several years.
No child was present at the home during the incident, according to the prosecution.
According to the latest figures from the Interior Ministry, 122 women were killed by their spouse or ex-spouse in 2021, a number up 20% from 2020.
